[Nagiosplug-devel] check_snmp bug report and feature request: negative numbers for warning and critical flags

[Ton Voon]

Hi Michael,

Can you try the latest snapshot at http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/snapshot/

Thomas has recently converted the thresholds to use the standard  
library which supports negative numbers.

Ton

On 9 Jun 2009, at 20:25, Michael J. Bauer wrote:

> The check_snmp documentation says that both the warning and critical
> flags take integer ranges as arguments.  However, both flags fail on
> negative integer ranges:
>
> # ./check_snmp -H localhost -o .1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.70.101.1.1.8.1.4.88  
> -C
> public --critical=-13007:-11036
> check_snmp: Invalid critical threshold - -13007:-11036
> 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 privpasswd]
>
> I get the same result if I change it to --warning, or if I use -c or  
> -w
> without the =.  The OID in question is a sensor for the -12V power  
> on a
> SunFire X4100 M2 motherboard.  It reports voltage * 1000, and I'd like
> to be able to monitor it.
>
> The OS and version I'm using.  The hardware is a SunFire X4100 M2 in  
> all
> cases.  As far as I can tell, I have the latest version of check_snmp,
> but I know that Red Hat versioning can be slippery.
>
> # cat /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga)
>
> # ./check_snmp --version
> check_snmp v2021 (nagios-plugins 1.4.13)
>
> # rpm -qi nagios-plugins-snmp
> Name        : nagios-plugins-snmp          Relocations: (not  
> relocatable)
> Version     : 1.4.13                            Vendor: Fedora Project
> <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> Release     : 11.el5                        Build Date: Tue Nov 18
> 10:00:35 2008
> Install Date: Fri Jan 23 16:21:22 2009         Build Host:
> xenbuilder2.fedora.redhat.com
> Group       : Applications/System           Source RPM:
> nagios-plugins-1.4.13-11.el5.src.rpm
> Size        : 147712                           License: GPLv2+
> Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Tue Nov 18 12:15:45 2008, Key ID  
> 119cc036217521f6
> Packager    : Fedora Project <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> URL         : http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/
> Summary     : Nagios Plugin - check_snmp
> Description :
> Provides check_snmp support for Nagios.
>
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