[Nagiosplug-devel] check_iftable - Submission
Subhendu Ghosh
sghosh at sghosh.org
Fri Nov 15 14:39:02 CET 2002
Of course a patch would be nice ;)
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Rob King wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> Ah-ha! I did find a difference. Now I remember why I did it this
> way. My script also checks the ifConnectorPresent attribute, and doesn't
> send out an alert if a connector is not present. This prevents it from
> sending out an error on "virtual" interfaces that are usually down, like
> dial-out ports.
>
> Sorry, that's the difference. :)
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
>
> Rob King wrote:
>
> > Hey Subhendu,
> > *grins* Now that I've looked at the check_ifstatus, I don't really
> > see much of a difference. Sorry, when I grabbed the help message for
> > check_ifstatus and I saw that it had a <PORT> option, I thought that
> > it was used for checking specific ports.
> >
> > So, that's my bad. Duplication of labor, all my fault.
> >
> > Thanks for the pointer, though.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > Subhendu Ghosh wrote:
> >
> >> Post it to the list.
> >>
> >> How different is this from check_ifstatus ?
> >>
> >> FYI - there is no table command in snmpv2 - but an implementation of
> >> getbulk recursion for the snmptable cmdline app in the net-snmp
> >> distribution.
> >>
> >> -sg
> >>
> >> On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Rob King wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Hey everyone,
> >>> I've written a Nagios plugin (in very ugly Bourne shell code)
> >>> that uses the SNMPv2 TABLE command to poll all the interfaces on a
> >>> router/machine, and give output like "Interfaces: 653 up, 32 down, 1
> >>> admin down, 1 disconnected". It seems to work fine, as we're using
> >>> it to monitor approx. 200 routers. The benefit to this is that it
> >>> checks all the interfaces using one SNMP operation for everything,
> >>> as opposed to one SNMP operation per interface.
> >>>
> >>> Please let me know if this would be the appropriate location for
> >>> me to submit it to have it included in the Nagios plugin
> >>> distribution. Like I said, it's pretty ugly, but I'd love it if
> >>> someone cleaned it up and included it.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Rob
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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