[TriLUG] scripted sesssions with ssh

[Adam Stokes]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Lance A. Brown<lance at bearcircle.net> wrote:
>
>
> 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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