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James Pietan System Programmer I Messaging and Directory Services SOA DOA ETS (907) 465-5769 IMPORTAN WARNING: This message is intended for the use of the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, forwarding or distribution of any information in this message is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you have received this message by error, please notify the sender and immediately delete all copies from your computer system to prevent further disclosure. From: Help [mailto:help-bounces+james.pietan=alaska....@monitoring-plugins.org] On Behalf Of pablo muñoz Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 7:34 AM To: Monitoring Plugins Users Subject: Re: Cannot use snmp_check with snmp v3 It is the actual password? I thought it was an example Atte. Pablo A. Muñoz Rojas Reseller Nagios & Nagios Community Manager<http://www.nagios.org/communitynetwork> P: +56-32-3140734 | C: +56-9-85499668 w: www.e-visus.cl<http://www.e-visus.cl/> – www.nagios-cl.org<http://www.nagios-cl.org/> | d: Ecuador 85, Viña del Mar, Chile Nagios Certified Administrator and Professional - 3HCL9F<http://www.nagios.com/verify/> Nuestras redes: Linkedin <https://cl.linkedin.com/in/pablomunozrojas/> - Twitter <https://twitter.com/Nagios_Chile> - Line <http://www.e-visus.cl/?p=241> - skype<http://www.e-visus.cl/?p=241> - facebook<https://www.facebook.com/evisus4nagios> 2015-07-07 12:31 GMT-03:00 Andreas Ericsson <a...@op5.se<mailto:a...@op5.se>>: On 2015-07-07 16:17, José Pedro Brito Röseler wrote: Hello. I’m trying to check the uptime of a Cisco 2960X switch on Nagios with check_snmp plugin but I always get the following error: [root@nagios]# /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_snmp -P 3 -U snmpv3user -L authPriv -a MD5 -A v3p4ssword#1 -x DES -X v3p4ssword#2 -H 192.168.254.2 -o DISMAN-EVENT-MIB::sysUpTimeInstance External command error: snmpget: Authentication failure (incorrect password, community or key) I get the same error on the web console: My switches.conf is like this: # HOST DEFINITIONS # ############################################################################ ### ############################################################################ ### # Define the switch that we'll be monitoring define host{ use generic-switch,host-pnp host_name cisco_2960x_IT2_Datacenter alias cisco 2960x 24p IT2 Datacenter address 192.168.254.2 hostgroups switches_v3 notification_interval 60 icon_image switch.png statusmap_image switch40.png } ############################################################################ ### ############################################################################ ### # # HOST GROUP DEFINITIONS # ############################################################################ ### ############################################################################ ### # Create a new hostgroup for switches define hostgroup{ hostgroup_name switches ; The name of the hostgroup alias Network Switches ; Long name of the group } define hostgroup{ hostgroup_name switches_v3 ; The name of the hostgroup alias Network Switches with SNMP v3 ; Long name of the group } ############################################################################ ### ############################################################################ ### # # SERVICE DEFINITIONS # ############################################################################ ### ############################################################################ ### ########## Switches with SNMP V3 ################### # Service definition to monitor switch uptime using check_snmp # Monitor uptime via SNMP define service{ use generic-service hostgroup_name switches_v3 service_description Uptime This happens because the shell translates the hash in your password to the end of the command and the start of a comment. You need to use either single or double quotes around both your passwords in order for the shell to see them as a single argument. check_command check_snmp!-P 3 -U snmpv3user -L authPriv -a MD5 -A v3p4ssword#1 -x DES -X v3p4ssword#2 -o DISMAN-EVENT-MIB::sysUpTimeInstance So type in v3p4ssword#1 as 'v3p4ssword#1' with the quotes, and do the same for 'v3p4ssword#2' and it should work. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se<mailto:andreas.erics...@op5.se> OP5 AB www.op5.se<http://www.op5.se> Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace.
