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SNMP Monitoring with Nagios

Issue 182

From Issue #182
June 2009

Jun 01, 2009  By Jason Ellison
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Using Nagios, you can monitor Dell servers with SNMP via Dell's server administration tools.

Resources

check_dell_openmanager.0.7-test.pl: ftp.linuxjournal.com/pub/lj/listings/issue182/10204.tgz

Nagios: www.nagios.org

check_dell_openmanager: www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=1437.html

Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Documentation: support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/svradmin

Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Version 5.4 SNMP Reference Guide: support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/svradmin/5.4/en/snmp/pdf/om_54_snmp_ref_gd.pdf

Jason Ellison (www.jasonellison.net) is an independent IT consultant in the Gulf Coast area. He can be reached at infotek@gmail.com.

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why reinvent the wheel :-)

natxo asenjo's picture
Submitted by natxo asenjo (not verified) on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 14:29.

http://folk.uio.no/trondham/software/check_openmanage.html

check_openmanage does all you need and is (at this point) a better solution for nagios.

Wheel wasn't reinvented

Trond H. Amundsen's picture
Submitted by Trond H. Amundsen (not verified) on Mon, 11/09/2009 - 10:05.

I feel the need to comment on this. I am the author of the check_openmanage plugin. I know for a fact that Jason's plugin existed long before check_openmanage, so to be precise it was I who reinvented the wheel. Also, our two plugins are different in their focus, and I believe that both are needed. Users can choose whichever plugin they want, among these two and many others. Isn't open source great :)

Besides that, I really enjoyed Jason's article. It explains in a detailed and concise manner how one goes about to monitor something with SNMP, and how to integrate this with Nagios. This is universally useful to many out there.

Thanks for a great article, Jason!

-trond

MonitorSNMP is a free

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 05/14/2009 - 14:01.

MonitorSNMP is a free monitoring service, basic but provides notification based on rules. Easy to setup and use. Take a look

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