11.4 Other SNMP-based Plugins

Apart form the SNMP plugins from the Nagios Plugin package, the Nagios community provides a large variety of other plugins for special purposes. Most of them can be found at http://www.nagiosexchange.org/ in the category Check Plugins | SNMP.[117]

11.4.1 Monitoring hard drive space and processes with nagios-snmp-plugins

One of these is the package nagios-snmp-plugins,[118] which exists not only as source code but also as an RPM package (for Red Hat and Fedora). It contains two very easy-to-use plugins: check_snmp_disk and check_snmp_proc.

Both absolutely require the NET-SNMP agent as the partner on the other side (see 11.2.2 The NET-SNMP daemon from page 238) and use ucdavis.dskTable and ucdavis.prTable to test the processes ...

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