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I am trying to set up nagios core 3 to monitor linux servers using net-snmp, having trouble to find the correct oids for snmp.

mibDepot.com seems to be a good site, but I tried most of them, not working... Any suggestions where to look?

Thanks!

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  • OpenNMS might be better suited for your needs. Nagios is not good at requesting several pieces of information via snmp. Only check_mk is a try to get that into a single request.
    – Nils
    Apr 18, 2012 at 19:37

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If you have the snmpd installed on your Nagios server (running CentOS 6?) everything is already in place. Then you can start monitoring using the OID-names as well.

Do a snmpbulkwalk -v 2c -c $COMMUNITY $TARGETSYS to dump a full snmp-listing of the target system.

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  • Thanks, Nil. I tried with snmpwalk and snmpbulkwalk, the output are similar. I am looking for oids for disk, mem, cpu, etc. but can't seem find them. Am I missing something on the client?
    – Linux
    Apr 18, 2012 at 22:08
  • If you can only "see" the system-OIDs you propably have limited access to the client with your community-string. What client is that? CentOS6, too?
    – Nils
    Apr 19, 2012 at 9:55
  • centos 5.7, but I tried with localhost (centos 6) as well, still only see limited oids.
    – Linux
    Apr 19, 2012 at 20:43
  • @Linux the default snmpd.conf is very restrictive on CentOS. use a different community (i.e. define one on the client) to get all data. If you look at the file there are already some examples in place. The combination of the source-IP (i.e. the Nagios server) and the community string will identify which security set is to be applied to the snmp-query. The default "public" will restrict you to the system "view".
    – Nils
    Apr 19, 2012 at 20:47
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SNMP is good for network devices. For centos systems look at the nrpe daemon and client.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nrpe/NRPE.pdf

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  • Sorry - SNMP is the standard to monitor almost any device. Look at OpenNMS and its usage...
    – Nils
    Apr 18, 2012 at 19:35
  • Nils.. I've written custom MIB files. I'm familiar with SNMP. It doesn't change the fact that there are better options out there for a lot of devices. There are certain stats that are a pain in the butt if not impossible to get with SNMP. Apr 18, 2012 at 20:04
  • If you can afford the resources to build monitoring methods for each OS - ok. But an additional daemon or agent? Why when there are snmpd and sshd already running?
    – Nils
    Apr 18, 2012 at 20:30
  • Thanks, Tim. I am hope to get all the monitoring done for network devices and linux servers in snmp instead of using both snmp and nrpe. It might be hard to find more plugins for snmp since there are more for nrpe, that's only downside I've heard. Is that correct?
    – Linux
    Apr 18, 2012 at 22:07
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I dont know what you're trying to do, but I'd start w/ nagios-plugins:

[alexus@wcmisdlin02 ~]$ rpm -q nagios-plugins
nagios-plugins-1.4.15-2.el6.x86_64
[alexus@wcmisdlin02 ~]$ 

then you can use following plugin to make snmp calls

[alexus@wcmisdlin02 ~]$ /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_snmp 
check_snmp: Could not parse arguments
Usage:
check_snmp -H <ip_address> -o <OID> [-w warn_range] [-c crit_range]
[-C community] [-s string] [-r regex] [-R regexi] [-t timeout] [-e retries]
[-l label] [-u units] [-p port-number] [-d delimiter] [-D output-delimiter]
[-m miblist] [-P snmp version] [-L seclevel] [-U secname] [-a authproto]
[-A authpasswd] [-x privproto] [-X privpasswd]
[alexus@wcmisdlin02 ~]$ 

I usually start from snmpwalk and then find right oid to check and take it to check_snmp nagios's plugin.

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  • Thanks Alex. I've done that part, trying to find the oids so I can monitoring centos 6 servers via net-snmp.
    – Linux
    Apr 18, 2012 at 22:10

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