Re: Monitoring Ethereal process via SNMP

"Champion, Tim" <[email protected]> writes:

> Greetings all. I am trying to find out if it?s possible to monitor the
> Ethereal process/s via SNMP. What I am trying to achieve specifically is
> to have a server with Ethereal capturing 24x7 using a FIFO buffer. I
> would then use SNMP to tell me that the server was capturing so I
> wouldni't need to keep checking (as there are going to be a number of
> these servers).

Using net-snmp you can use the "proc" directive. 

man 5 snmpd.conf:
,----
|   Directives
|        proc NAME
| 
| [...]
| 
|        Checks  to  see  if processes called NAME are running on
|        the agent machine.  An error flag (1) and a description
|        message are then passed to the 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.2.1.100 and
|        1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.2.1.101 MIB columns (respectively) if the
|        NAME'd program is not found in the process table as reported 
|        by " -acx".
`----

Jens