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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">I thought about using SNMP – the first thing I learned was that “Simple” is a misnomer. It’s anything but simple.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jeremy Laidman<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 16, 2016 16:28<br>
<b>To:</b> usa ims <usaims@yahoo.com>; Adam Goryachev <adam@websitemanagers.com.au>; xymon@xymon.com<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I don't think SNMP can be used to monitor log files. At least I can't think of a way to do ir without using a script.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you can SSH from another server that can run the xymon client, then you could setup a reverse tunnel for syslog-over-tcp, and then your task becomes monitoring the logs on the other server.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, 17 Jun 2016, 03:27 usa ims via Xymon <<a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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files and alert if there is a problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">But I just found out that I can't even use ssh scripts because of compliance. Would SNMP be a good solution if I can't use ssh scripts?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">On Thursday, June 16, 2016 1:23 AM, Adam Goryachev <<a href="mailto:adam@websitemanagers.com.au" target="_blank">adam@websitemanagers.com.au</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">On 16/06/16 11:37, Bruce Ferrell wrote:<br>
> If i understand you correctly, there is no direct path between the sister server, on .51, and your monitor station. That would seem, on the surface, to make use of SNMP and the<br>
> devmon add in for xymon very difficult.<br>
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Personally, I'd add a custom ext to the server you DO have access to, <br>
which will ping/test connectivity to your second server, and then report <br>
the results back along with the rest of the results.<br>
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Or, did you want to run a client on the second machine?<br>
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Regards,<br>
Adam<br>
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From: usa ims via Xymon <<a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon@xymon.com</a>><br>
To: Adam Goryachev <<a href="mailto:adam@websitemanagers.com.au" target="_blank">adam@websitemanagers.com.au</a>>, "<a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon@xymon.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon@xymon.com</a>><br>
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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 19:27:36 +0200 (CEST)<br>
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Is SNMP a solution<br>
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