On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Liane Praza <liane.praza at sun.com> wrote: > Peter Tribble wrote: >> As I was reading this, I started to wonder - why does SMF have to build >> in snmp traps, or email. Doesn't the 'execution of a shell script' cover >> those >> (and any other sorts of actions that you may wish to trigger)? > > For SNMP trap, we'd want to use a standard MIB by default. Email, we'd want > a standard template. Shell scripts would allow people to deviate from the > standard form if they wanted, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't have a > standard form.
Sure, but I would have those as canned shell scripts that people could hook up, rather than built in to SMF itself. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/