On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:50:50 -0800, Israel Brewster
<isr...@frontierflying.com> wrote:
>I have a number of scripts I have developed to monitor our UPS units
>via SNMP - I found the included plugins didn't give me enough power/
>flexibility with the monitoring, so I made my own. Unfortunately, we
>have just added a new UPS to the system which, although made by the
>same company, uses different OID's for the data I am pulling. Thus the
>issue: I want the same data, so other than the OID's the existing
>scripts would work. But how do I deal with different OID's on
>different devices?
>
>So far I've thought of the following:
>1) Make a second copy of my scripts with the new OID's. Also implies
>creating new contacts to use the new script (the notification script
>pulls data such as estimated run time via snmp) and maintaining two
>copies of each check/notification script
Why 2 copies? Why not add a version argument to your script?
./check_ups -v 1 {other args}
Inside the script (pseudo code)...
if (version 1) {
oid_battery_life = 1.2.3.4
} else {
oid_battery_life = 1.3.3.4
}
snmpget oid_battery_life...
--
Jonathan Angliss
<j...@netdork.net>
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