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check_snmpv2.pl

Why?

bywillix, January 9, 2012

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I don't want to discourage you (and starting like this is a good way to get some practice writing nagios plugins) but why are you writing this? Your script is not really a perl plugin because it relies on retrieving SNMP with external command. As such its just a wrapper and we already have check_snmp included with nagios plugin, written purely in C, and that can retrieve data from multiple SNMP OIDs and compare values. There is also at least one other alternative check_snmp (which is faster but does not work with SNMP v3), just look around exchange.

And if you want temperature I recommend you just download check_snmp_temperature.pl. Take a look at how its code too to learn how to write nagios plugins in Perl that retrieve data by SNMP. Then consider what is needed for your setup and write a new perl plugin (if it does not already exist) that you'd be proud of.

Owner's reply

Yeah, I've been writing plugins for nagios/netsaint for over a decade now.

There are lots of plugin scripts out there that are wrappers. And most scripts that utilize protocols, need to wrap themselves around libraries.

The check_snmp plugin does not take into consideration the output a device will generate. It is not that good, but a good start for most people.

I have seen lots of scripts which give you this output, or that output, but never one I can ask for whatever output I am looking for. So I wrote script that is easy enough to do just that. I can use this script to check every OID on any any device, and out put the data so it is useful for performance data or not.

Yes, I am proud of all of my code. Because I wrote it, and it works, and it is simple to understand and expand upon.

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