[TriLUG] scripted sesssions with ssh

[Lance A. Brown]

Joseph Mack NA3T said the following on 7/7/2009 9:57 PM:
> On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Heath Roberts wrote:
> 
>> What are you monitoring? Could you maybe install an SNMP agent?
> 
> a lot of the parameters don't have SNMP eg disk temp (via smartctl).
> I've never used SNMP because it looks like a lot of work to write the
> client/server (agent/something) whereas I can get the disk temp from
> smartctl in one line with grep/awk.

If you can get it with a quick command line, you can get the data via
SNMP using 'exec' functionality in snmpd.conf.  It lets you plug the
output of a command (shell script, C, whatever) into SNMP so it can be
queried.


#  You can also have programs run by the agent that return a single
#  line of output and an exit code.  Here are two examples.
#
#  exec NAME PROGRAM [ARGS ...]
#
#  NAME:     A generic name.
#  PROGRAM:  The program to run.  Include the path!
#  ARGS:     optional arguments to be passed to the program

#exec echotest /bin/echo hello world

# Then,
# % snmpwalk -v 1 localhost -c public .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.8
# enterprises.ucdavis.extTable.extEntry.extIndex.1 = 1
# enterprises.ucdavis.extTable.extEntry.extNames.1 = "echotest"
# enterprises.ucdavis.extTable.extEntry.extCommand.1 = "/bin/echo hello
world"
# enterprises.ucdavis.extTable.extEntry.extResult.1 = 0
# enterprises.ucdavis.extTable.extEntry.extOutput.1 = "hello world."
# enterprises.ucdavis.extTable.extEntry.extErrFix.1 = 0

--[Lance]

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