[Cialug] Linux and SNMP

[Thomas Kula]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 10:28:23AM -0600, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> 
> I'm just getting my feet wet with SNMP.  What are some good tools for dealing with SNMP using Linux?
> 
> Is there something I can use to receive traps and then filter and review them somehow, or would that be two different tools?
> 
> There seems to be quite a bit of stuff and I'm looking for the tried-and-true type options or choices with the biggest communities around them.
> 

I use snmptrapd to do monitoring of my two tape libraries. 
I didn't do much with snmptrapd itself, just set it up to
basically take every trap it gets and dump it to a script
(which gets lines of key/value pairs) and decide there what
to do.

The hardest part will probably be, in my guess, getting MIBs
installed and deciphering what the hell they actually mean....
At least, it was for me.

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