[Nagiosplug-help] check_ifoperstatus process utilization

[Andreas Ericsson]

Dominik Romaneschen wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> maybe somebody can help me with a strange behavior in conjunction to the
> check_ifoperstatus plug-in of Nagios. We use Nagios 1.1 with Red Hat 9.0 in
> a VMware virtual machine and the first version of the plug-in addon. I
> tried already the new version of the plug-in addon, but due to problems I
> had to restore the older ones.
> 

The check_ifoperstatus script uses the perl-module Net::SNMP. That 
module parses all the MIB-files installed on the system each time it is 
invoked, which results in system load skyrocketing. A much more 
efficient way of doing it would be to call snmpget with the -m: (parse 
NO mibs) option, and use OID's instead of MIB-names when fetching the 
values. snmpget also properly tells the system that it is dormant while 
waiting for responses. I'm not sure how this is handled in Net::SNMP.

> Thanks for every reply,
> 

You're welcome.

> Dominik
> 

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