On Monday, 21 June 2010 13:55:53 user-ddebaeecde97@xymon.invalid wrote:
Hello;
I've gotten devmon to work on my current Xymon setup; the only drawback in
my opinion is lack of device support in devmon.
Templates are created for devices people have access to, who are willing to do
some work to create a template. I try and add all templates that are
submitted.
Even if devmon had MIB support, templates would still be required to a degree.
Feel free to assist in improving devmon.
I will try, but have found the task of creating MIBs a daunting one. Yes, I want to use someone elses MIB's for my devices.
I'd like to roll-out
something else that would allow me to receive SNMP traps from a device,
and send out alerts via Xymon.
I need to implement some trap support. The snmptrapd->snmptt->sec->xymon
method (at http://cerebro.victoriacollege.edu/hobbit-trap.html) is a bit heavy
for my current environment.
I have been wondering if a dedicated perl script using NetSNMP::TrapReceiver
(IOW, running inside snmptrapd) reporting directly to Xymon would be better.
However, the question is, exactly how should it behave? How should traps be
mapped to tests (all traps to a single 'trap' test, or to individual tests,
and how)? Should traps be stored to a database as well (so they can be ACK'ed
etc.)?
I wish I could help here, and agree that the "snmptrapd->snmptt->sec->xymon" is a bit conplicated, especially with SEC, but probably the most powerful design I've seen yet. The problem I see here is the ability to create SEC rules for alerting and properly testing them.
I'd also like to be able to use
WeatherMap, and of course want to make the three of these work together
as seamlessly as possible.
While I would like to improve Weathermap (to require less manual work in
creating map configurations), it works well enough for me
http://staff.telkomsa.net/~bgmilne/xymon/
Have you run into problems with it?
I love the weathermap feature (thank you) and is why I want to keep it. The only issue I have with the present weathermap feature for xymon/devmon is that the weathermap GUI-editor is not implemented.