Send Notifications via SNMP

[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Sir,

I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 09:11:34AM +0100, Andreas Winter wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> is there anyone who has an idea how i can send notifications via 
> snmp-traps. The idea is to monitor hosts and services with nagios and 
> notify a third-party product with snmp-traps in case of state chances.
> 

that I have an idea but nothing much more.

The Nag/Netsaint notify commands can be replaced by snmptrap (from the
net-snmp distribution) to do this.

Howver, it seems to me that you have a significant amount of integration
to map check outputs/return codes, in the general case, to SNMP OIDs.

If all you want to do is send one OID when a service fails and another
when it recovers, then this isn't too bad, but surely you want to
transmit the same amount of info as in a notifaction eg at least

. hostname

. service name

. plugin output

Perhaps (and I don't know too much about this) if you have your own
private OID tree then this is feasable. 

> Thanks in advance
> Andi Winter
> 

HTH,

Yours sincerely.

-- 
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Stanley Hopcroft
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'...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'

from Meditation 17, J Donne.


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