Re: [Nagios-users] SNMP Monitoring conundrum

2009-07-17 Thread Israel Brewster
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Re: [Nagios-users] SNMP Monitoring conundrum

2009-07-17 Thread Israel Brewster
On Jul 16, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Max wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Israel Brewsterisr...@frontierflying.com wrote: Anyone else run into a similar situation? What does everyone else think the best approach here is? Thanks. We do a lot of SNMP monitoring for a number of various agents

Re: [Nagios-users] SNMP Monitoring conundrum

2009-07-17 Thread Marc Powell
On Jul 17, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Israel Brewster wrote: Good suggestion, and it would certainly work. However, that would muddy up (to some extent) my nagios configs. The way I have things set up at the moment, there is one (ok, two actually, but same idea) service for UPS checks, which

Re: [Nagios-users] SNMP Monitoring conundrum

2009-07-17 Thread Max
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Israel Brewsterisr...@frontierflying.com wrote: So if I understand you correctly, after you make 1 agent type per script, you would then write a wrapper script calling multiple individual scripts for the cases where you want more than one piece of data? The

[Nagios-users] SNMP Monitoring conundrum

2009-07-16 Thread Israel Brewster
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,

Re: [Nagios-users] SNMP Monitoring conundrum

2009-07-16 Thread Mark Gius
I would suggest you use custom object variables (http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/customobjectvars.html). This is a nagios 3 feature, so if you're on 2.0 you'll need to upgrade. Basically, you can define custom variables into hosts/services/whatever. So you'd have a custom object var

Re: [Nagios-users] SNMP Monitoring conundrum

2009-07-16 Thread Max
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Israel Brewsterisr...@frontierflying.com wrote: Anyone else run into a similar situation? What does everyone else think the best approach here is? Thanks. We do a lot of SNMP monitoring for a number of various agents - Net-SNMP, Cisco, Sysedge. I have found it

Re: [Nagios-users] SNMP Monitoring conundrum

2009-07-16 Thread Marc Powell
On Jul 16, 2009, at 4:50 PM, Israel Brewster 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

Re: [Nagios-users] SNMP Monitoring conundrum

2009-07-16 Thread Jon Angliss
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