topic Messaging with snmp in Operating System - Linux

Messaging with snmp

Kenan Erdey — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:48:53 GMT

Hi,

i have a network monitoring tool for looking at whether a group of servers are down or up. In the notification tab of the program, i can run a script when the event comes up.

i have another server that can send sms messages to people for any events. Now what i want to do is to communicate two servers. Sending the event with snmptrap and gettting the trap from sms server with snmptrapd daemon comes to my mind. But i got stuck in configuring snmptrapd.conf and how i'll send the message. Because i'll use it for my custom messaging.(what oid etc.)

Any other ideas and solution are welcome with nice points :)

Kenan.

Re: Messaging with snmp

Matti_Kurkela — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:19:35 GMT

Is there any particular reason to use SNMP traps to transfer the alerts between the two servers? You probably have some more flexible protocols available.

I would set up SSH key authentication so that the scripts launched by the network monitor server can remotely execute the necessary SMS sending commands on the SMS server.

MK

Re: Messaging with snmp

Kenan Erdey — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:41:03 GMT

thanks.monitoring machine is win2k3 but i should be possible do it and pass the parameters

Re: Messaging with snmp

Ivan Krastev — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:27:08 GMT

For setting ssh key authentication use freesshd daemon for Windows - http://www.freesshd.com/

regards,
ivan

Re: Messaging with snmp

Jarle Bjorgeengen — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:48:35 GMT

A suggestion would be to have he scripts send an e-mail to the sms-service, and have the sms-service parse the mail.

Rgds Jarle

Re: Messaging with snmp

Kenan Erdey — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:11:51 GMT

thanks,
did it with ssh.Closing thread.