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A little follow-up from the RTFM department... :roll: "Rate Calculation: In many places, SNMP returns counters that are only meaningful when calculating the counter difference since the last check. check_snmp saves the last state information in a file so that the rate per second can be calculat...

Thanks for the prompt reply. Can you tell me where I'd find the file? I'm running a copy of the Nagios XI virtual machine. I'll see if I can decipher what's happening in the plugin code, but my skills are limited outside of C and C++ so no guarantees I'll be much use in that regard. Mr. Admin, do yo...

Hello all, I'm using check_snmp to poll some network devices for in_octets and out_octets to see how much traffic is flowing over some interfaces. I have it polling with the default 5min interval and I set the check_snmp arguments to use the "-rate" option to calculate the difference betwe...

For me, I was able to temporarily resolve the issue by resetting the security credentials (just using the default generated passwords) but the issue came back the next time I logged in. Changing the Nagios Core back-end password to match the password for nagiosadmin has fixed it permanently (so far)...

Hey all, I'm setting up an evaluation of Nagios XI and so far I'm liking it, I've got the VM up and running, the web interface configured, and I'm starting to poll some devices via SNMP using some OIDs I dug up. I've had a problem since the first time I fired up the web interface, though. Performanc...