Yeah polling is logging things that are expected, traps are trying to know whether something unexpected happened or not. Traps are good for logging things that dont require a high degree of accuracy, or for alerting a specific condition i real time
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Chuck McCown via Af <[email protected]> wrote: > If we poll every minute or every 5 minutes, catching traps may not be > important. > If we don’t poll, I worry that we will miss a trap due to it being UDP. > > *From:* Eric Muehleisen via Af <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Monday, December 29, 2014 9:52 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] traps vs polling > > Both. Traps for realtime alerting and polling for historicals. > > On Monday, December 29, 2014, Chuck McCown via Af <[email protected]> wrote: > >> When attempting to collect system wide status and alarm data >> real-time, are traps reliable enough or should you just poll everything on >> a regular basis? >> > > > -- > Sent via mobile > -- All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer. -- IBM maintenance manual, 1925
