.... But the right configuration applied to net-snmp (especially v5.4) can arguably provide as rich an agent as most proprietary ones. What's missing is the central management of the net-snmp configuration itself - something that the proprietary agents do very well.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of cluther > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 3:15 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [zenoss-users] Re: Snmp traps... is it worth it? > > Carl, > > Net-SNMP on Linux systems by default has a rather worthless > set of SNMP traps. You'll get warm/coldStart traps and > interface up/down traps assuming the device is multi-homed. > The same could be said for Windows systems. > > Where the real value of SNMP traps would be if you have Dell > or HP management agents installed (OpenManage or Insight > Management Agent) which send some really great information as > traps. Things like disk failures within an array, temperature > alerts, etc. > > If you don't have these extended management agents on your > systems, SNMP traps from servers are of very limited value. > > ------------------------ > Chet Luther > > > > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > Read this topic online here: > http://community.zenoss.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=9623#9623 > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > zenoss-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users > _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
