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Alert on failure to collect SNMP counter

Subject: Alert on failure to collect SNMP counter
Author: Alberto
Posted: 2014-04-02 11:54

Hi all,

Does anyone know of a method of generating an alert whenever zenperfsnmp fails to fetch an specific SNMP counter from a device The device does answer to SNMP GET's, but only an specific counter may fail (due to the application which provides the OID freezing).

Thanks.



Subject: Yes. What you want to do is
Author: [Not Specified]
Posted: 2014-04-03 07:35

Yes. What you want to do is create a custom monitoring template (easiest to clone from an existing SNMP template), add the OID you want to poll data from, and then set a Threshold.

Once the result is out of the Thresold, it creates an event. You can give them a severity and Event Class!

Hydruid



Subject: That is a very good question.
Author: [Not Specified]
Posted: 2014-04-11 13:28

That is a very good question......you might be able to monitor the "application that freezes" as an OS Process and alert when it fails that way, otherwise I think you would have to write a command data source which will give you additional options to create events on failure to connect and etc.

Hydruid



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