Re: What off-the-shelf utility available that I can send out SNMP traps in windows environment - with no runtime license?
- From: David A.Lethe <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 22:44:31 -0500
On 1 Aug 2005 22:09:23 -0700, "mark kaplun" <markk5@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>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
Thank's for the insite, Mark. I have hired a programmer to do it the
right way.
FYI, there is a snmptrap program bundled with NET-SNMP which is
somewhat usable, but I concur after doing additional research that the
only practical way to implement a solution is to do it the right way
and implement a full agent.
.
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