[Nagiosplug-devel] check_iftable - Submission

[Subhendu Ghosh]

Post it to the list.

How different is this from check_ifstatus ?

FYI - there is no table command in snmpv2 - but an implementation of 
getbulk recursion  for the snmptable cmdline app in the net-snmp 
distribution.

-sg

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Rob King wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>     I've written a Nagios plugin (in very ugly Bourne shell code) that 
> uses the SNMPv2 TABLE command to poll all the interfaces on a 
> router/machine, and give output like "Interfaces: 653 up, 32 down, 1 
> admin down, 1 disconnected". It seems to work fine, as we're using it to 
> monitor approx. 200 routers. The benefit to this is that it checks all 
> the interfaces using one SNMP operation for everything, as opposed to 
> one SNMP operation per interface.
> 
>     Please let me know if this would be the appropriate location for me 
> to submit it to have it included in the Nagios plugin distribution. Like 
> I said, it's pretty ugly, but I'd love it if someone cleaned it up and 
> included it.
> 
>     Thanks,
>     Rob
> 

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