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SNMP Trapping Question - What is Best Tool for the Job?

list Josh Luthman
Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:18:57 -0400
Message-Id: <user-cbeb69e30afb@xymon.invalid>

What do you mean device support, predone copy and paste templates?

I find the templates to be of the creator's best use and I do my own.
Note that I don't use devmon or Xymon for SNMP.

On 6/21/10, Buchan Milne <user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid> wrote:
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'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'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?


Regards,
Buchan

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