On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:57 PM, David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having said that -- can you recommend a site that talks about SNMP and > gives examples at the level of getting information out of a Linux box, and > perhaps some sort of household router/WAP? It'd be good for me to learn, > if I had some reason to hope I'd have a better outcome than the last few > times.
Disclamer: this is not a promotion / plug of the book I helped write. Really. http://www.nagios3book.com/nagios-3-enm/checks/ Under the checks directory you will see a number of check scripts. As part of the book, I wrote a bunch of perl-based Net-SNMP plugins for Nagios, some to monitor basic host metrics via the Net-SNMP agent, a few examples of router plugins, and a few bluecoat plugins as well. The publisher was fine with me posting them on a website we created for anyone who wants them to be able to download them. All work well under ePN, they use Nagios::Plugin and my subclassed Nagios::Plugin::SNMP module along with a module I wrote specifically for the book, which can be downloaded at http://www.nagios3book.com/nagios-3-enm/checks/lib/ Nagios::Plugin::SNMP is also available via CPAN. Pretty easy to use them (in my opinion) .. all are downloadable from the site above at no cost and without any requirements to register etc. Hoping to be able to release updates to them that i and my coworker have made at work back to the Nagios community as we have made some enhancements and fixed some bugs in them at the company i currently work for (our manager is working on getting us permission to release our updates back to the public). SNMP may seem difficult but as an end user it really is not hard, just takes some patience and i agree that there is not nearly enough easy-to-read SNMP documentation available online, especially for integrators. For example, with Net-SNMP, granting read-only SNMP v2 access to all clients via the snmpd.conf file is as simple as putting rocommunity your-community-string in the file and restarting the agent. use a host-based firewall to limit who can access the SNMP polling port. Typically the hardest part about SNMP in a project is convincing network staff and security staff that allowing SNMP access within the trusted zone(s) of a network isn't going to lead to every system getting rooted. - Max ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ 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
