SNMP Monitoring

Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold friz at godshell.com
Wed Mar 2 08:36:09 EST 2005


McKinnon, Joe wrote:

>Hi,
>
>How about multiple tests?  differt thresholds, different actions?
>  
>

I thought about that...  Ugly, but it would work..  However, that means 
I'm SNMP querying the device 3 times instead of one..  I was hoping 
there was an easier way ...

>Cheers
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:arguslist-bounces at tcp4me.com]On Behalf Of Jason 'XenoPhage'
>Frisvold
>Sent: Wednesday, 2 March 2005 4:20 AM
>To: Discussion about Argus
>Subject: SNMP Monitoring
>
>
>Hi all,
>
>    I'd like to monitor the alarm status on some RAS units we use.  The 
>mib returns an integer value which ranges from 0-3.  3 is a normal 
>state, 2 a minor, 1 is major, and 0 is critical.
>
>    Is it possible to have Argus act differently according to the return 
>value?  Specifically, I'd like to see this :
>
>State 3 - All ok, node up.
>State 2 - No notification, just alert in gui
>State 1 - Normal notification
>State 0 - Immediately Escalate
>
>Is this possible?  I'm crawling through the docs now, but I haven't hit 
>on a way to do this yet...
>
>Thanks!
>
>  
>


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