Manubulon SNMP Plugins Installation

The plugins rely on the Net::SNMP Perl library for fetching data from SNMP enabled hosts.

Prerequisites

RHEL/CentOS requires the EPEL repository:

yum -y install epel-release
yum makecache

If you are using RHEL you need enable the optional repository and then install the EPEL rpm package.

Debian/Ubuntu:

apt-get -y install libnet-snmp-perl libcrypt-des-perl libcrypt-rijndael-perl libdigest-hmac-perl

RHEL/CentOS/Fedora:

yum -y install perl-Net-SNMP perl-Getopt-Long perl-Crypt-DES perl-Crypt-Rijndael perl-Digest-HMAC

Debian/Ubuntu:

install -o root -g root -m750 plugins/*.pl /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/

RHEL/CentOS/Fedora:

install -o root -g root -m750 plugins/*.pl /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/

Proceed with inspecting the plugins --help parameter in this chapter.

Next up: Integrate the plugins into your monitoring by adding configuration.

Perl, default directory and temp files location can be changed using the install.sh script.

utils.pm from Monitoring::Plugin::Perl is no longer required.