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Kelemvor
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2 months ago

Does anyone have a Module just to check if SNMP is working at all?

Hi, We have a lot of times where a server will stop responding to SNMP checks for whatever reason.  That will generally turn CPU, File System, Uptime, etc all to No Data responses.  We generally hav...
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Joe_Williams
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2 months ago

The "official" way is to alert on No Data from the Uptime module. Also depending on the environments you are monitoring, not everything will respond with a system hostname. I would suggest looking into combining several datapoints to check, uptime, hostname and maybe interfaces. If all three of those fail, then you know SNMP isn't working.