[hobbit] sending snmp traps

[Juan Guzman]

I want hobbit to forward all alerts as snmp traps, but don't know much (if 
anything) about snmp, other than how to do some queries.  I would get my 
hands dirty with perl, but I don't know enough about snmp.


>From: "Hubbard, Greg L" <greg.hubbard at eds.com>
>Reply-To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>To: <hobbit at hswn.dk>
>Subject: RE: [hobbit] sending snmp traps
>Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 09:23:11 -0500
>
>Juan, can your software monitor syslog?  It would probably be much
>easier to use logger to send a message to your monitoring console than
>it will be to define your own traps.  SNMP trap definition requires some
>knowledge of MIB's and OIDs and varbinds and PDU's and such.  Syslog is
>just text processing.
>
>GLH
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Juan Guzman [mailto:jrguzmanr at hotmail.com]
>Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 8:30 AM
>To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>Subject: Re: [hobbit] sending snmp traps
>
>I agree, but I don't know the snmp trap format.  Can somebody point me
>in the right direction of what a trap consists of?
>
>thanks
>
>
> >From: henrik at hswn.dk (Henrik Stoerner)
> >Reply-To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> >To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> >Subject: Re: [hobbit] sending snmp traps
> >Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 22:18:12 +0200
> >
> >On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 03:38:17PM -0400, Juan Guzman wrote:
> > >
> > > Has anybody configured hobbit to send traps to a monitopring
> > > sofware,
> >e.g.
> > > tivoli?  I'm looking for hobbit to send a trap when something turns
> >yellow
> > > or red.
> >
> >Using the "SCRIPT" mechanism in hobbit-alerts.cfg lets you run a
> >command to notify about an alert. It should be fairly simple to write a
>
> >script that sends an SNMP trap from this.
> >
> >
> >Regards,
> >Henrik
> >
> >
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