Re: Monitoring OID Error

Ok, great. I think part of the problem is that I don't fully understand how
these should be used in context. For example I thought that using "-o" and
then a value, specified an OID to monitor. Thank you again for your help.

Mark

On 11/10/06, Dave Shield <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 10/11/06, Markus Gibson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Well I was able to get the error to go away by using:
> >
> > monitor -u _internal -r 60 -e "SwapUsage" -o hrStorageUsed.3 != 0
>
> I'm not sure why, because that doesn't look like a valid monitor line
> either.
>
>    a)  You're still not specifying an OID to monitor
>    b)  Khalid's reminded me that you've missed out the name field as well.
>
> As I've tried to say several times, I don't think you need that "-o" flag.
> And I think you'd probably be better off starting by using the standard
> notification too, rather than trying to define your own.
> Try something like:
>
>      monitor  -I -u _internal  -r 60  "Swap Usage"   hrStorageUsed.3 > 0
>
> (That's minus-Capital-i, since you're monitoring a single instance,
> rather than a wildcarded object).
>
> Once you're happy that this entry works as expected - *then* think about
> changing the trap that's sent (using -e {Event}) or adding extra values to
> the payload (using -o {object})
>
> But when in doubt, keep things as simple as possible.
> Tackle it one step at a time.
>
> Dave
>



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