Re: SNMP Traps

Interesting idea John, I will take a look.  SNMP is not nearly as
simple as it seems (after doing more research).

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:05 AM, John Kristoff <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:24:05AM -0500, Scott Behrens wrote:
>> I was wondering if anyone had experience writing custom MIB's or
>> working with SNMP Traps.  I need to come up with a custom trap for
>> detecting core dumps on some systems I've been working with.  The
>> information I have found seems pretty confusing and complex, and I was
>> wondering if anyone had good tips.
>
> I never run my own SNMP trap manager.  Never liked SNMP for that
> sort of thing.  Its been a long time since I looked, but most of
> the SNMP manager consoles I have seen where big bloated, buggy
> pieces of crap.  No kidding.  Plus, SNMP is not so simple as the
> name implies to work with.  I've had better luck using syslog
> for similar functionality.
>
> Something else I've used that I'd propose is something like a
> safetynet script.  You can do something basic in a start-up
> script like this:
>
>  STOP_RUN=/path/to/file/to/touch/for/normal/shutdown
>  while [ ! -f ${STOP_RUN} ]
>  do
>    /path/to/crappy/app
>    sleep 5
>    echo 'restarting' | mail -s '### crappy app alert' jdoe-hcDgGtZH8xOIwRZHo2/[email protected]
>  done
>
>
> If crapp appy crashes, the control script should start it up again,
> unless you've touched the file pointed to by STOP_RUN.  You want
> that in case you actually want to stop the app for real and not
> have it automatically restarted.
>
> John
>
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