[Nagiosplug-devel] check_snmp usage

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Bertelson, Tom (CAP, CARD) wrote:

> 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?
> 

Directories to search --- would that be better off in snmp.conf?

Sprickman was working with putting all the snmpv3 auth info in snmp.conf 
as well so check_snmp could potentially be called with only host and oid 
information..

-sg