Re: SNMP

[Martin Pala]

Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:

> Martin Pala <address@hidden> writes:
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> > Yeah, we spoke about SNMP traps in the past - it was on the TODO too :) 
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> We changed it (tentatively) to using web-services via the SOAP
> interface instead, but maybe it's not mutually exclusive?
Webservices via SOAP will be great for data gathering (pull) from 
monitors (it is very similar to snmp-get method). SNMP traps are aimed 
for proactive notification about some event (process crashed, treshold 
reached, etc.) (=> push).

As Christian noted, though SNMP has lot of problems (security, etc.) it 
is widely used. I like much better webservices idea, then SNMP, but SNMP 
traps aren't dangerous and could be useful in lot of places.

On the other side, maybe it will be better to keep clear concept and not 
to mess monit with such technologies fragments => probably we shall 
think about both methods (pull+push) via webservices.

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> > I still think it could be useful in lot of cases (we use
> > Netcool/Infovista for monitoring, which is able as well as meny
> > other NMS to display SNMP traps).
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> I know very little about SNMP but from what I have read it looks
> pretty useful, particularly with a program like monit. 
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> > Rory Toma wrote:
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> > > So, I'm neck deep in snmp right now, and it occurred to me how much
> > > easier my job would be if monit supported snmp, both from a trap
> > > perspective (as an alert, etc) and also providing info a la "monit
> > > status"
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