[brlug-general] looking for SNMP info

[Tim Fournet]

Zenoss handles traps, as well as graphing, plus a lot of other 
nagios-like functionality, including the plugins.

www.zenoss.org


Dustin Puryear wrote:
> Okay, I was wondering. AFAIK, Cacti just does graphing of SNMP data. I'm
> sure tools like Nagios, etc do work with SNMP traps though.
>
> Didn't someone come up with a Big Brother + Cacti integration dealie?
>
> Adam Melancon wrote:
>   
>> Sorry, looks like I got caught in a "trap" and misunderstood the
>> request.  I'm just using cacti to monitor SNMP, not to catch traps.
>>
>> Adam Melancon
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com
>> <mailto:dustin at puryear-it.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Wait. Cacti can do SNMP traps? What does it do with that data? Maybe I'm
>>     missing something.. :)
>>
>>     -ray wrote:
>>     > We use cacti too.  Have you set it up to catch snmp traps?
>>     >
>>     > ray
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Adam Melancon wrote:
>>     >
>>     >> 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 <bendily at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:bendily at gmail.com>> 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
>>     >>>
>>     >>>
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