Send SNMP Trap on Log Entry

[Michael Morlock]

The HP NetServer Intel servers have an HP TopTools product that ships with it to provide management of the HP Hardware. Is there a similar "built-in" agent technolgy that come with, or can be freely aquired for HP-UX systems? Besides having general management of the hardware and OS, I would also like to be able to have the ability to send an SNMP trap from an HP-UX system to OV, based on a specific entry being placed in an applications log. We also have HPOV NNM 6.1. Thanks!

[Phil Daws_2]

If you are running OPC/ITO/VPO (whichever version) why are you not just monitoring the log file instead of generating a SNMP event?

[Michael Morlock]

Only running NNM. I know there is a utility that comes with NNM called SNMPTRAP, that sends a message in the form of a trap. If I run this from a script, I can manually send a trap from some event, maybe as part of a script running on the HP-UX server that hosts HPOV-NNM. The problem is, I have other HP-UX servers that don't have HPOV-NNM running on them, so they don't have the SNMPTRAP utility. I need some other means for a script running on those servers to be able to create a trap message to my HPOV-NNM server.

[Ian Dennison_1]

Search HP Porting Centre for SNMP utilities,... this one looks promising!

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu./hppd/hpux/Networking/Admin/tricklet-1.4/

Share and Enjoy! Ian

[Phil Daws_2]

Best of sticking with UCD-SNMP which is very well supported in the open source arena. Take a look @ http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/

I think they only have compiled binaries on UX 10.20 but I did try these on a 11.11 box and they worked okay. Give them a whirl.