[Nagiosplug-help] Check_snmp and Could not open pipe: error

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Pietro Bandera wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I need to check the disk of some ibm server by this oid
> 
> enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.ibmServeRaid.ibmServeRaidMIB.ibmServeRaidMibObje
> cts.ibmServeRaidInfo.ibmServeRaidPhysDeviceTable.ib
> mServeRaidPhysDeviceEntry.ibmServeRaidPhysDeviceStatus
> 
<snip>
> 
> []# snmpget 192.168.0.37 public
> enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.ibmServeRaid.ibmServeRaidMIB.ibmServeRaidMibObje
> cts.ibmServeRaidInfo.ibmServeRaidPhysDeviceTable.ibmServeRaidPhysDeviceE
> ntry.ibmServeRaidPhysDeviceStatus.\"113\"
> enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.ibmServeRaid.ibmServeRaidMIB.ibmServeRaidMibObje
> cts.ibmServeRaidInfo.ibmServeRaidPhysDeviceTable.ibmServeRaidPhysDeviceE
> ntry.ibmServeRaidPhysDeviceStatus."113" = online(2)
> 
> I got a right answer 
> 
> while if i use the check_snmp command with the same sintax i got this:
> 
> 
> []# /usr/local/netsaint/libexec/check_snmp 192.168.0.37 -C public -o
> enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.ibmServeRaid.ibmServeRaidMIB.ibmServeRaidMibObje
> cts.ibmServeRaidInfo.ibmServeRaidPhysDeviceTable.ibmServeRaidPhysDeviceE
> ntry.ibmServeRaidPhysDeviceStatus.\"113\" -l Disco -s "online(2)"
> Could not open pipe: /usr/bin/snmpget -m ALL -v 1 192.168.0.37 public
> enterprises.ibm.ibmProd.ibmServeRaid.ibmServeRaidMIB.ibmServeRaidMibObje
> cts.ibmServeRaidInfo.ibmServeRaidPhysDeviceTable.ibmServeRaidPhysDeviceE
> ntry.ibmServeRaidPhysDeviceStatus."113"
> 
> 

The error says "could not open pipe"  

check_snmp was probably compiled on a different system and the snmpget 
binary is in a different location or doesn't have o+x permissions.


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-sg