Re: How to send a mail if trapsnmpd is not responding

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OK, thanks Dave.

On Feb 18, 2008 5:50 PM, Dave Shield <D.T.Shield@liverpool.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 18/02/2008, Vishal N <vishalnandanwar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I want to send a mail if trapsnmpd is not responding.
>
> Not responding to who?
> The agent, or something else?
> Responding to traps or informs, or what?
>
> It is not possible to do this for traps, since the application generating
> a trap has no idea whether it was received or not. That's a fundamental
> characteristic of SNMP traps.
>
> It would in principle be possible to do this for INFORM notifications,
> since these _are_ acknowledged. But the current Net-SNMP agent
> does not include anything of this sort - sending email is a much
> higher level activity than the normal operation of the agent.
>
> It *might* be possible to tweak the agent code to make it do this,
> but I'm not sure how straightforward it would be. The code isn't really
> designed with this sort of thing in mind.
>
> There certainly isn't any documentation for this - you'd be very much
> working on your own.
>
> Dave
>

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OK, thanks Dave.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 18, 2008 5:50 PM, Dave Shield &lt;<a href="mailto:D.T.Shield@liverpool.ac.uk">D.T.Shiel d@liverpool.ac.uk</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On 18/02/2008, Vishal N &lt;<a href="mailto:vishalnandanwar@gmail.com">vishalnand anwar@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>&gt; I want to send a mail if trapsnmpd is not responding.<br><br></div>Not responding to who?<br>
The agent, or something else?<br>Responding to traps or informs, or what?<br><br>It is not possible to do this for traps, since the application generating<br>a trap has no idea whether it was received or not. &nbsp;That's a fundamental<br>
characteristic of SNMP traps.<br><br>It would in principle be possible to do this for INFORM notifications,<br>since these _are_ acknowledged. &nbsp;But the current Net-SNMP agent<br>does not include anything of this sort - sending email is a much<br>
higher level activity than the normal operation of the agent.<br><br> &nbsp; It *might* be possible to tweak the agent code to make it do this,<br>but I'm not sure how straightforward it would be. &nbsp;The code isn't really<br>
designed with this sort of thing in mind.<br><br>There certainly isn't any documentation for this - you'd be very much<br>working on your own.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Dave<br></font></blockquote></div><br>

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