OK, so I need help figuring out how to poll my box for the OID's so I can make get requests on my server to determine early warnings of possible health issues.

I currently have a single server host and one client in this equation. Using only SNMP polling there has to be a way to determine the OID of these features right? RAID / Power Supply / Fan

I dont have any custom MIBs or special traps available to me, it should be standard non platform/distribution specific response hidden in my snmpwalk right?

are there tricks to identifying OID's on the local host to then test and query from the outside ?

This is a networking question right?

Dump it all and look through it?

If there's alot, grep for the "hr" stuff (host resources).

So i have done a full walk, and i get a ton of unnamed OIDs, and no MIBs available.
Any trick to identifying the OID to hw status ?


most of the items i'd be looking for I assume (prolly shouldnt) that they would have a message like this:

OID = INTEGER: 2 (or STRING when referencing file systems, processes, and names i think)
I've looked thru the whole walk and i find some stuff for /dev/sda and another portion where it lists my partitions, but nothing that in my view references hardware status.

I'm using the command:

snmpwalk -v2c -c public -Oa host.ip
(the -Oa is supposed to force ascii names if the MIB is on the host according to the man page)

I'm still super new to using SNMP, and my linux is limited, so any help is appreciated.

Linux SNMP OID’s for CPU,Memory and Disk Statistics may be of help.