Re: What off-the-shelf utility available that I can send out SNMP traps in windows environment - with no runtime license?
- From: "mark kaplun" <markk5@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 1 Aug 2005 22:09:23 -0700
David A.Lethe wrote:
> I'd like to add capability to send out SNMP traps using our
> vendor-unique MIB & OID in a windows environment. This is going to be
> with a product for resale, so I don't want to use anything that would
> have GPL or GPL-like licensing constraints.
>
> I just need to send out traps that report device state at a regular
> polling interval. I don't need to write an agent program.
>
<rant>
That is a common BAD practice. What you say is that you will supply
information to the administrator when you want to, instead of when he
needs it.
Now if you will open any SNMP book, you will probably see that the
entity sending traps is called snmp agent in most places (in theory
traps can be used in manager to manager communication, but it is a
relatively rare case). So like it or not, you actually want to have an
SNMP agent, a crippled one, but yet an agent.
</rant>
> It *looks* like the native windows evntwin program can be set up to
> send out traps, but I'd like to know if there are other things out
> there.
>
> Is there a stand-alone executable that I can bundle (or just require
> that somebody downloads on their own), that takes parameters from
> command-line or a data file that is easy to use & integrate? I don't
> mind paying a reasonable up-front price for something as long as there
> are no runtime constraints.
>
Most likely you are not going to find such a tool. It requires an
integration with the microsoft SNMP agent (at the minimum to get send
the traps to all of the addresses configured in the agent as trap
destinations), and most open source tools do not care too much to
support it.
What you actually need is to hire a programmer with knowledge in
windows agent SNMP API to write you this code. This should not be a big
task, and probably some of the people hanging around here will be able
to do it for you.
> Thanks
Mark Kaplun
http://www.marksw.com
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