Using SEC with Nagios for SNMP trap processing

[Noah Leaman]

Heh... OK I get it now :) My mistake was thinking that SEC was 
instantiated each time as SNMP trap was received... it's obvious now 
that SEC is in fact running as a daemon process.


On Friday, November 14, 2003, at 12:19  AM, Noah Leaman wrote:

> I am thrilled with the prospect of using SEC to process SNMP traps, 
> but I am wondering the best way to send the received trap(s) to > sec.pl.
>
> Should I setup a "traphandle default" in snmptrapd.conf to pipe each 
> trap separately to SEC, or use the traphandle to append to a log file 
> then have that log file read by SEC. If it is the latter, then how or 
> when does SEC get instantiated so it can read the file and how does 
> being able to perform time-based correlation come into play with how 
> the traps are read by SEC?
>
> I know I am missing a part of the puzzle here. Otherwise I think I 
> understand how to integrate SEC into Nagios as far as setting up the 
> passive service and using SEC to write to nagios.cmd.
>
> --
> Noah
>
>
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