[Nagiosplug-devel] check_snmp usage

[Bertelson, Tom (CAP, CARD)]

I recently ran into a problem where my list of symbolic OID's was greater
than Nagios' 1024-character buffer size.  I'm now using numeric OID's for
the "-o" option (to keep the command line short) but have the MIBs installed
so the output looks nicer.

I think being able to specify the MIBs to load is a good idea.  The default
should still be "-m ALL", for backward compatability.  How about "-m All" if
the user specifies no MIBs, and the core net-snmp MIBs plus the
user-specified ones otherwise?

While we're at it, how about an option to specify the directories to search?
-- 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Subhendu Ghosh [mailto:sghosh at sghosh.org]
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 12:30 AM
To: NagiosPlug Devel
Cc: netsaintplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagiosplug-devel] check_snmp usage



Looking for feedback..

Larry Low recently submitted a patch a on being able to specify what MIBs 
should be loaded by check_snmp rather than the current ALL setting.

I tend to agree that the ALL setting is wasteful in terms of memory 
specially if you have a lot of mibs lying around like I do (all of cisco, 
extreme, compaq, + some others)

However, I may look for a default that includes the mibs that are part of 
the net-snmp install - rather than an empty default.


Comments on how you use check_snmp - with numeric oids or symbolic oids
Interested specially in those that use symbolic oids from enterprise 
mibs..


There are couple other patches pending:
 for alternate port and for SNMPv3


-sg



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