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 2007, James Whittington wrote:
> 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
> community name or build logic in the script to try multiple names I was
> kinda surprised I didn't see a community name directive in the host
> definition specification.
>
> I realize nagios a more a monitoring framework and not tied solely to
> snmp based checks but it seems like it's a worthy item to have as part
> of the host definition.
>
> Maybe it there and I'm just not paying attention, if so I am sure
> someone will correct me :<)..
>
> Thanks,
>
> James Whittington
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