[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#772180: check_snmp not passing community to snmpget

[Julio González Gil]

Package: nagios-plugins-standard
Version: 1.4.16-1

When I try to run check_snmp to collect data from remote systems:

./check_snmp -H 192.168.3.1 -C public -t 10 -o sysUpTime.0

It keeps waiting forever until I press CTRL+C to cancel.

After researching a little bit, I came to
http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=8448 and tried by
myself with the following results:

$ ./check_snmp -v -H 192.168.3.1 -C public -t 10 -o sysUpTime.0 &
[1] 3693
/usr/bin/snmpget -t 10 -r 5 -m ALL -v 1 [authpriv] 192.168.3.1:161
sysUpTime.0

$ ps x
  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
 3693 pts/1    S      0:00 ./check_snmp -v -H 192.168.3.1 -C public -t 10
-o sysUpTime.0
 3694 pts/1    S      0:00 /usr/bin/snmpget -t 10 -r 5 -m ALL -v 1 -c
 192.168.3.1:161 sysUpTime.0

Notice the empty value for -c (community).

This his happening to me at Debian 7.7 amd64. In case it is of interest:
this also happening with Raspbian 7.6 which is using the same
nagios-plugins-standard version, but not at current Debian SID amd64 which
uses nagios-plugins-standard 2.0-2.

Running snmpget by hand fails with:

$ /usr/bin/snmpget -t 10 -r 5 -m ALL -v 1 -c        192.168.3.1:161
sysUpTime.0
Missing object name
USAGE: snmpget [OPTIONS] AGENT OID [OID]...

And then prints the help.

snmp version (which provides snmpget) is 5.4.3~dfsg-2.8+deb7u1

Kernel version is 3.2.0-4-amd64 (3.2.60-1+deb7u3) and libc is 2.13-38+deb7u6



-- 
Julio González Gil
Mail: julio at juliogonzalez.es
Website: http://www.juliogonzalez.es
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