On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:19:22PM -0500, Marc Powell wrote: > On May 20, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 02:16:23PM +0530, Michael Mukherji wrote: > >> thanks for your input.But the port was actually down.Bt i want > >> notification > >> saying that port is down rather than snmp unable to collect data > >> > >> So is any extra parameter such as -s /-r is required in my > >> check_snmp > >> command. > > > > No. > > > > As he noted, the problem is that the Cisco doesn't behave properly. > > If > > the port is down, the Cisco should *say that it is down*, rather than > > simply ceasing to respond properly. > > > > But that's what it does, and that's what you're seeing. > > That's not how I interpreted his issue at all and I'm a bit dubious > about it.
Perhaps I misunderstood Hugo; he seemed pretty clear about what he was saying, but admittedly, I haven't tripped over the problem myself. > The problem interface was a Serial interface, possibly the > only upstream connection. check_snmp will behave this way if the > router is unreachable. I've never personally experienced this > 'disappearing' interface problem or non-responsiveness with any kind > of physical connection (Serial, (Fast)Ethernet, etc), only virtuals > such as ISDN Virtual interfaces, which are expected and even those > have never caused SNMP to be non-responsive. I do perform somewhat > extensive checking of interfaces via SNMP (several thousand). Well, that sounds pretty authoritative. Hugo? Cheers, - jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Joseph Stalin) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
