Can I send agent log entries as SNMP traps?

[Silas Lane]

Hello,

I have the hp mgmt agent for vmware installed on my ProLiant DL360. I have integrated the agent with ILO and can see the ILO logs on my System Management Homepage.

What I would like to do next is send the log messages to my network management server via snmp.

Is this possible? I have checked the docs and can't find any reference to this.

Any help much appreciated.

Kind regards

Silas

[fred Passeron]

hi

I don't follow you there...would'nt it be simplier to configure the snmpd.conf to send the traps to your network management server ?

This would imply to compilation of the mib on the network management server also.

regards

fred

[Silas Lane]

Hello,

Sorry - maybe I should be more clear.

There is certain log information in the ILO logs that I want to send to my management server as snmp traps (console logins specifically).

I have snmp.conf configured so that snmp traps are being sent.

However no traps are being sent that contain the infomation regarding console logins. I can only see this in the ILO logs.

Can I configure the insight agent so that I get information regarding console logins sent as snmp traps.

(NB if I use the ILO trap mechanism this doesn't seem to send this information either).

Hope that clears things up a bit.

Silas

[David Claypool]

iLO only traps on authentication failures when logging-in to the iLO itself, and by default only every 3rd authentication failure (although you can set the option for every failure if you want). If you are talking about events in the iLO log such as 'remote console session started' and you want to generate a trap on that, then that is not a feature of iLO, and is outside of the spirit of eventing vs. logging. Eventing is for exceptions. Logging is for activity. However, we understand the need for consolidating logs, and iLO supports remote retrieval of logs for that purpose.