[Nagios-users] snmp community option in host definition?

2007-06-21 Thread James Whittington
I am faced with the potential of having to monitor different remote networks with primariliy custom perl based snmp checks. The tricky part of this is that different networks may have different SNMP community names. While I could create different service definitions for each different

Re: [Nagios-users] snmp community option in host definition?

2007-06-21 Thread william(at)elan.net
1. N3 will/does support custom macros 2. I've seen (or heard) somewhere patch to add snmp community name to host 3. Many are doing it using hostgroup names and then have a map file with community names loaded from it (and then also not seen when you do ps on the box!!!) On Thu, 21 Jun

Re: [Nagios-users] snmp community option in host definition?

2007-06-21 Thread Marc Powell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Whittington Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 10:06 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] snmp community option in host definition? I am faced

Re: [Nagios-users] snmp community option in host definition?

2007-06-21 Thread Curtis Frazier
Off the top of my head, maybe the scripts could be edited so that you could pass the community string to the script from the service definition. For example, here's one that I use: define service{ use chkifoperstatus-service host_name

Re: [Nagios-users] snmp community option in host definition?

2007-06-21 Thread James Whittington
again for the helpful feedback. James Whittington -Original Message- From: william(at)elan.net [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 12:11 PM To: James Whittington Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] snmp community option in host