[Xymon] Sending SNMP information

[Torsten Richter]

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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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