[Xymon] Is SNMP a solution

[Ribeiro, Glauber]

I thought about using SNMP – the first thing I learned was that “Simple” is a misnomer. It’s anything but simple.

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From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy Laidman
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 16:28
To: usa ims <usaims at yahoo.com>; Adam Goryachev <adam at websitemanagers.com.au>; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Is SNMP a solution

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.

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.

On Fri, 17 Jun 2016, 03:27 usa ims via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>> wrote:
It would be nice to use 'xymon-rclient.sh' on the '192.168.1.51' node which is not exposed on the Internet. I wanted 'xymon-rclient.sh' to monitor log files and alert if there is a problem.

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?

On Thursday, June 16, 2016 1:23 AM, Adam Goryachev <adam at websitemanagers.com.au<mailto:adam at websitemanagers.com.au>> wrote:

On 16/06/16 11:37, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
> 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
> devmon add in for xymon very difficult.

Personally, I'd add a custom ext to the server you DO have access to,
which will ping/test connectivity to your second server, and then report
the results back along with the rest of the results.

Or, did you want to run a client on the second machine?

Regards,
Adam

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