RE: RFC - SNMP

From: S Trefethen (seames@worldpath.net)
Date: Wed Nov 14 2001 - 01:35:52 EST


Dude.. this is an awesome notion.

snmp should alert on x failures, (like icmp)

Could you add 95 percentile port monitoring for indiv port billing,
etc.?

You dat man. If you really want some ideas (enough to toss them in the
trash) let me know.

Seames

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jared Mauch [mailto:jared@puck.nether.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 12:58 AM
> To: sysmon-help@puck.nether.net; sysmon-announce@puck.nether.net
> Subject: RFC - SNMP
>
>
>
> I'm working on snmp stuff for sysmon, and want to get some
> ideas of what types of things people would want to do.
>
> I'm thinking of the following:
>
> 1 = sysUpTime.0/reboot (ie: alert if uptime decreases)
> 2 = high threshold (ie: alert if it goes above that value)
> 3 = low threshold (ie: alert if it goes below that value)
> 4 = range threshold (ie: specify a high+low and alert if
> it is out of range
> 5 = exact threshold (ie: alert if it is != configured value)
>
> The other question is what should happen when snmp times out?
>
> should it generate an alert/email/page for that case?
>
> There would obviously be no real support for getting strings
> except for possibly a "change" type of alert. ie: alert me if the
> value changes from the inital query value. But I would not be
> inclined to implement any sort of string-type snmp query. If you
> think i'm wrong, tell me why :)
>
> Thanks again. Please send me any feedback you can think of.
>
> - Jared
>
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