Thanks for all who gave immediate feedback on having a snmp community option in nagios.
It's good to know N3 will have the custom macro support, I am already doing some testing to see of the configuration interface my client is using will be able to play nicely with Nagios 3.x so the custom macro support is a definite plus. Deriving community names by fetching the hostgroup name also sounds like a creative solution, I keep configuration data in the database and the filesystem so I could grab the hostgroup from either, I just haven't had a reason to fetch that information before. Thanks 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 definition? 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
