[Xymon] Sending SNMP information

Vernon Everett everett.vernon at gmail.com
Wed Dec 17 13:40:54 CET 2014


Hi Torsten

That looks excellent.
Unfortunately, I will only be back at $CLIENT next week, but I will give
that a go when I get there.
It looks like exactly what I am looking for.

Thanks
Vernon


On 17 December 2014 at 16:02, Torsten Richter <bb4 at richter-it.net> wrote:
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> Hi Vernon,
>
> I actually do this for a client too.
> Since the alerting is outsourced to an external company over the weekend
> and this company uses BMC P*** I need to forward all of the red or
> purple alerts to this console.
>
> This is what I have in alerts.cfg:
>
> SCRIPT /home/bbrother/hobbit/server/ext/sendpatrol <IPofCONSOLE>
> DURATION>6 COLOR=red,purple RECOVERED
>
> Thus it sends for all red and purple alerts a trap to the remote console
> and if something goes back to green another trap is sent to autoclose
> the event.
>
> The recovery is not working if something goes from red to yellow and
> THEN to green.
> Therefor I use a cron script that checks every hour if there are alerts
> that are expired and then sends the autoclose trap to the remote console.
>
> The remote guys need to have the information in a special order. So
> basically the script is calling snmptrap with some parameters and thats it.
>
> The command looks like this:
>
> SNMP="/usr/bin/snmptrap"
> MIBNAME="NET-SNMP-EXAMPLES-MIB"
> MIBTLVL="netSnmpExampleScalars"
> MIBSCLR="netSnmpExampleString"
> SNMPLOG="${BBTMP}/patrol.log"
>
> ${SNMP} -v ${VERSION} -c ${COMMUNITY} -Lf ${SNMPLOG} ${RCPT} ""\
> ${MIBNAME}::${MIBTLVL} ${MIBSCLR} s\
> "${BBHOSTNAME};${BBSVCNAME};${BBCOLORLEVEL};ALARM ${ALARMNUM}\
> (${ESCALATION});${BBCOLORLEVEL}"
>
> SNMPLOG is a file where snmptrap puts some useless information and it is
> overwritten every time.
>
> As most of the variables are self explaining I will only explain 2 of them:
>
> ALARM ${ALARMNUM} - ALARM is the keyword and ALARMNUM is a phone no. the
> guys have to call.
> ${ESCALATION} - is the phone no. of the manager on duty if they don't
> reach someone on the other line.
>
> HTH
> Torsten
>
> On 17.12.2014 05:24, Vernon Everett wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > At $CLIENT, an "executive decision" was made to do all monitoring using
> > $OTHER_TOOL.
> > $OTHER_TOOL uses only SNMP.
> > Although the results in Wintendo-land are acceptable, what we get in
> > Solaris-land is not.
> >
> > As a compromise, it was resolved to keep Xymon for Solaris-land for admin
> > team monitoring and diagnostics, but get it to send critical elerts to
> > $OTHER_TOOL in the form of SNMP traps.
> > This might not even make sense, but somehow, probably using the SCRIPT
> > directive in alerts.cfg, I need to notify $OTHER_TOOL of critical events.
> >
> > Any tips on how?
> >
> > Regards
> > Vernon
> >
> >
> >
> >
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