OK, thanks Dave.
On Feb 18, 2008 5:50 PM, Dave Shield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 18/02/2008, Vishal N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I want to send a mail if trapsnmpd is not responding.
>
> Not responding to who?
> The agent, or something else?
> Responding to traps or informs, or what?
>
> It is not possible to do this for traps, since the application generating
> a trap has no idea whether it was received or not. That's a fundamental
> characteristic of SNMP traps.
>
> It would in principle be possible to do this for INFORM notifications,
> since these _are_ acknowledged. But the current Net-SNMP agent
> does not include anything of this sort - sending email is a much
> higher level activity than the normal operation of the agent.
>
> It *might* be possible to tweak the agent code to make it do this,
> but I'm not sure how straightforward it would be. The code isn't really
> designed with this sort of thing in mind.
>
> There certainly isn't any documentation for this - you'd be very much
> working on your own.
>
> Dave
>
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