I use Cacti for all my SNMP monitoring. It works great! http://cacti.net/
Adam Melancon On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Brad Bendily <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am an SNMP newbie. I've started a project at work to monitor > availability > > of services on a server. These services support SNMP v1, but the docs are > > pretty slim. > > > > I've been playing around with Net-SNMP and can do a simple SNMP get from > my > > workstation for the server's name and so on, so I know SNMP works on > > it. However, I can't figure out how to receive a trap from the app's > agent > > on the server. There are too many factors with that configuration to > mention > > now, so I'd like to pose a simple question. > > > > What is the simplest demonstration of a trap (both sending and receiving) > > using the Net-SNMP (http://www.net-snmp.org) tools? Can this be done > using > > only Net-SNMP tools? I'm using Net-SNMP as it is cross-platform. And yes, > it > > is open source. ;) > > > > We have dell servers at work and usually install the dell open manage > package. This adds the dell MIBs so we can get all kinds of info off the > server via snmp. We use SuSE servers, the problem I have had with snmp > is that for different versions of the net-snmp rpm i have to have a > different snmpd.conf. This partly due to the open manage stuff. To get > open manage to work you have to enable "smuxpeer". For one rpm version, > the smuxpeer needs a password and you have to set the password in dell > open manage. For another snmp rpm you don't need the password at all. > for traps you need to enable them via the conf file, which will be: > > trapsink 10.1.1.1 public > > The man page says you should also use: > trapcommunity STRING > defines the default community string to be used when sending > traps. Note that this directive > must be used prior to any community-based trap destination > directives that need to use it. > > trapsink HOST [COMMUNITY [PORT]] > > > However, our config doesn't use trapcommunity. This may be part of > something open manage does for us. But this sends traps to our > open manage monitor server. Now we just need someone to monitor that > server! > > Hope this helps, let me know if I can do anything else. > b > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
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