consequences of no snmp

[Lars Oeschey]

Hi,

I just found out that on one machine the snmpd was no more running. HPSIM didn't complain about that, what brought me to the question: What are the consequences of a failing snmp service? Obvioulsy hardware defects aren't sent to HPSIM anymore I guess. Shouldn't HPSIM bring an error in such an event?

Lars

[Aravindh Rajaram]

The other thing that would get afftected is the data collection. I guess you use more than one protocol to manage the servers. Further sim will not report the failure of the snmp service.

[Lars Oeschey]

ok, since we use HPSIM for hardware monitoring only, I can use nagios to monitor the snmp service. Otherwise there would be no sense in monitoring hardware with a piece of software that could just fail...

[Sakti Chakravarty]

Lars,

You could create an Automatic Event Handling task that sends you an email when the HW state of the server changes.

If you have ping and SNMP polling enabled and the SNMP fails, the HW state will degrade.

Cheers
Sakti

[Lars Oeschey]

I took a look at the HW status polling task, all 3 protocols are active, so failure of SNMP should have brought a HW status degrade?

[Lars Oeschey]

ok, I just tried that. Disabled snmpd on a machine, no degradation of any status in HPSIM