Hobbit and HPOV NNM 🔗 link

Hi, 
 
I'm trying to push Hobbit alarms up to HPOV NNM (reference what
"Guillaume" did in BB (re:
http://support.bb4.com/archive/200203/msg00670.html)).  However, his
method will not work with Hobbit and I'm wondering if anyone has an
external script or maybe some guidance that they can provide.
 
Guillaume's solution was to edit line 1227 of bbpage.c to create a
community for Ucd-SNMP and recompile bbd as well as making some
configuration changes in bbwarnrules.cfg and bbwarnsetup.cfg.
 
 
Thanks, 
 
-Mark

There's no need for that silliness.  At least in BB.
When you want to push alarms up via traps, just list 
trap-x.x.x.x as a recipient rather than an e-mail 
address or a pager.  x.x.x.x is the ip address of the 
trap receiver.

I'm not sure if this trick works in Hobbit however.

Paul

user-2ab84be18235@xymon.invalid 06/29/05 3:51 PM >>>

Hi, 
 
I'm trying to push Hobbit alarms up to HPOV NNM (reference what
"Guillaume" did in BB (re:
http://support.bb4.com/archive/200203/msg00670.html)).  However, his
method will not work with Hobbit and I'm wondering if anyone has an
external script or maybe some guidance that they can provide.
 
Guillaume's solution was to edit line 1227 of bbpage.c to create a
community for Ucd-SNMP and recompile bbd as well as making some
configuration changes in bbwarnrules.cfg and bbwarnsetup.cfg.
 
 
Thanks, 
 
-Mark

On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 03:51:20PM -0400, Coupe, Mark (ITD) wrote:

There's an "snmptrap" command that you should look into. This is a
command-line utility for generating an SNMP trap message and sending
it somewhere; this should run from a custom alert script that you 
invoke from the hobbit-alerts.cfg file.

If your Hobbit server has the Net-SNMP package installed, there's some
documentation about how to generate traps in their FAQ. See
http://www.net-snmp.org/docs/FAQ.html#How_do_I_send_traps_and_notifications_

The biggest issue might be to find out what OID to use when sending the
trap. The OID (Object IDentifier) must be recognized by your HPOV 
installation - it must be described by a MIB file that is installed in
the HPOV management system - so it knows how to interpret this trap.
E.g. a trap stating that "Item 4 now has value 80" doesn't mean much 
unless you know that that "Item 4" is the temperature of your CPU and 
"80" is in degrees Celsius.

You can make up your own OID's, as long as you make sure they are
defined by a MIB. It's customary to use OID's within the "enterprises"
section of the OID tree. Big Brother uses an OID of 1.3.6.1.4.1.7058 
which is such an "enterprise" OID registered as the top-level OID for 
"BB4 technologies".


Regards,
Henrik