Fantastic. Thanks so much to both of you for the information. Exactly what I was looking for.
-----Original Message----- From: Marcus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 8:57 AM To: Josh Wells Cc: nagios Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] How to monitor Equallogic PS SAN with snmp? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Josh, Josh Wells schrieb: > Thanks for the help Marcus. One last question, how do I find an OID? > Are these standardized values defined by the SNMP protocol or are they > device specific? There are standards, how to define OIDs in MIBs. Every manufacturer who builds a device can define his own OIDs and put them in a so called MIB for that device. There is also a standard-MIB (called MIB2), which defines common stuff. Take a look here: http://www.et.put.poznan.pl/snmp/mib2/mib2.html What you need to do, in order to determine, what information you can get from your SNMP-capable device (your SAN), is to use some sort of MIB-browser (either graphical or console-based), feed it with the MIB of the device you want to monitor, and browse the OID-tree. The MIB translates those weird rows of dots and numbers into something human-readable. (OID 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.2 could be an interface description, for example.) Here is a page with a couple of snmp-tools: ;-) http://www.snmplink.org/snmpsoftware/forenduser/#6 This MIB-Browser is free and multiplatform (Java): http://www.dwipal.com/mibbrowser.htm Read the docs to learn how to load the MIB of your Equallogic-Device into the program. Greetz, Marcus -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFItU8a+qVaNRZYOakRAtuaAKCLTRsISEwlAO8TXa8axM3mDUONmwCfQGvJ xSTCGAGPJOv3HIV0qtIKk4U= =sP7H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ 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