[Nagiosplug-devel] [ nagiosplug-Feature Requests-1650176 ] check_snmp: Passing -Pu to snmpget command

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Feature Requests item #1650176, was opened at 2007-02-01 16:58
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Status: Open
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Andrew Elwell (elwell2000)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: check_snmp: Passing -Pu to snmpget command

Initial Comment:
Using a (Badly written) vendor supplied MIB from Areca for a raid card (see http://www.areca.us/support/download/RaidCards/AP_Driver/SNMP_MIBs.zip ) snmpget is only happy if we pass the "-Pu" (ignore underscores) flag to it. I have made a workaround by permanently patching the source of check_snmp.c

PROBLEM:
# snmpget -v1 -c public hostname ARECA-SNMP-MIB::raidState.0              Bad operator (_): At line 20 in /usr/share/snmp/mibs/ARECA-SNMP-MIB.txt
ARECA-SNMP-MIB::raidState.0: Unknown Object Identifier


# snmpget -v1 -c public -Pu hostname ARECA-SNMP-MIB::raidState.0
ARECA-SNMP-MIB::raidState.0 = STRING: "Normal"

WORKAROUND:

                /* asprintf (&command_line, "%s -t %d -r %d -m %s -v %s %s %s:%s %s", */
                /* Hack below to accept underscores as areca mib broken */
                asprintf (&command_line, "%s -Pu -t %d -r %d -m %s -v %s %s %s:%s %s",


But it'd be nice to be able to pass this flag to the check_snmp if needed


Andrew

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>Comment By: Thomas Guyot (dermoth)
Date: 2007-02-02 09:07

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Have you tried:

mibAllowUnderline true

in snmp.conf (not snmpD.conf!) This should fix your problem.

You can also specify numeric OIDs to avoid the need to parse mibs. If you
need to specify multiple OIDs be sure to get the latest CVS (or upcoming
nagios-plugins release) as it fixes a bug where multiple numeric OIDs would
cause check_snmp to load the MIBs.



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