[hobbit] SNMP Trapping Question - What is Best Tool for the Job?

[Josh Luthman]

What do you mean device support, predone copy and paste templates?

I find the templates to be of the creator's best use and I do my own.
Note that I don't use devmon or Xymon for SNMP.

On 6/21/10, Buchan Milne <bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net> wrote:
> On Monday, 21 June 2010 13:55:53 wiskbroom at hotmail.com wrote:
>> Hello;
>>
>> I've gotten devmon to work on my current Xymon setup; the only drawback in
>>  my opinion is lack of device support in devmon.
>
> Templates are created for devices people have access to, who are willing to
> do
> some work to create a template. I try and add all templates that are
> submitted.
>
> Even if devmon had MIB support, templates would still be required to a
> degree.
> Feel free to assist in improving devmon.
>
>>  I'd like to roll-out
>>  something else that would allow me to receive SNMP traps from a device,
>>  and send out alerts via Xymon.
>
> I need to implement some trap support. The snmptrapd->snmptt->sec->xymon
> method (at http://cerebro.victoriacollege.edu/hobbit-trap.html) is a bit
> heavy
> for my current environment.
>
> I have been wondering if a dedicated perl script using NetSNMP::TrapReceiver
> (IOW, running inside snmptrapd) reporting directly to Xymon would be better.
> However, the question is, exactly how should it behave? How should traps be
> mapped to tests (all traps to a single 'trap' test, or to individual tests,
> and how)? Should traps be stored to a database as well (so they can be
> ACK'ed
> etc.)?
>
>>  I'd also like to be able to use
>>  WeatherMap,  and of course want to make the three of these work together
>>  as seamlessly as possible.
>
> While I would like to improve Weathermap (to require less manual work in
> creating map configurations), it works well enough for me
>
> http://staff.telkomsa.net/~bgmilne/xymon/
>
> Have you run into problems with it?
>
>
> Regards,
> Buchan
>
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