RE: Resetting DISMAN traps?

On 10/04/07, Dave Shield <D.T.Shield@csc.liv.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 10/04/07, Ward, Martin <Martin.Ward@colt.net> wrote:
> > One small issue however is that I can't persuade Net-SNMP to send a
> > clear trap when a given trap event clears. For example,
> Net-SNMP sends
> > a trap when the 5m load average goes above 2.0 (which is
> good) but it
> > doesn't send a clear trap when the load average goes back
> down below
> > 2.0 (which is bad).
> >
> > Is there a way of doing this or am I expecting too much?
>
>
> You need to set up a matching "monitor" entry, with the test
> reversed. At some point, I intend to add a flag to the
> monitor directive, that would register this automatically.
> But at the moment, you need to do it for yourself.
>
> Alternatively, you could try playing about with threshold
> tests, which *do* have both rising and falling traps. But
> the default boolean test only triggers when the test is true,
> not when it goes false again.
>

I went the way of using thresholds even though these are simple
Boolean traps and it works perfectly. Thanks for your help Dave!

|\/|artin


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