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Re: [monit-dev] Feature suggestion: SNMP support in Monit
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Martin Pala |
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Re: [monit-dev] Feature suggestion: SNMP support in Monit |
Date: |
Mon, 5 Sep 2011 14:19:02 +0200 |
On Sep 4, 2011, at 6:56 PM, Lior Okman wrote:
> On 09/04/2011 05:08 PM, Martin Pala wrote:
>> Hi Lior,
>>
>> thank you for explaining the plan, we see the point and undestand that
>> better SNMP support can be useful in SNMP-oriented environments.
>>
>> At this point however, we prefer not to integrate Monit with Net-SNMP - our
>> approach is to keep Monit simple with minimum dependencies on 3rd party
>> libraries, so if everything fail, monit will keep running and will be able
>> to report and fix problems.
> Is the objection to the Net-SNMP suite in particular, or to 3rd party
> libraries in general?
We try to keep minimum dependencies in general so Monit can be kind of "last
stand" on the system … nothing personal against Net-SNMP.
>> To provide support for integrating monit with other systems (like SNMP), we
>> plan to add general framework for custom actions, so it will be possible to
>> use plugins like sending SNMP trap, SMS gateway plugin, tex-to-speach, etc.
>> This way the plugins will be isolated and if there will be some bug let's
>> say in Net-SNMP, it won't make Monit vulnerable nor crash it.
>>
>
> This indeed makes supporting SNMP notifications unnecessary directly in Monit.
>
> However, that's only half of the SNMP story. How are you planning to make it
> possible to query monit about the services that it is currently monitoring
> while using SNMP? This isn't a trap/notification based action, it's more like
> being able to use the "monit status" command from a remote machine using SNMP
> facilities.
Monit has XML interface suitable for integrations like this. In your case you
can write independent SNMP subagent which will proxy Monit's XML data source ->
SNMP.
Regards,
Martin
- [monit-dev] Feature suggestion: SNMP support in Monit, Lior Okman, 2011/09/02
- Re: [monit-dev] Feature suggestion: SNMP support in Monit, Michael Shigorin, 2011/09/03
- Re: [monit-dev] Feature suggestion: SNMP support in Monit, Lior Okman, 2011/09/04
- Re: [monit-dev] Feature suggestion: SNMP support in Monit, Michael Shigorin, 2011/09/04
- Re: [monit-dev] Feature suggestion: SNMP support in Monit, Lior Okman, 2011/09/04
- Re: [monit-dev] Feature suggestion: SNMP support in Monit, Michael Shigorin, 2011/09/04
- Re: [monit-dev] Feature suggestion: SNMP support in Monit, Martin Pala, 2011/09/04
- Re: [monit-dev] Feature suggestion: SNMP support in Monit, Lior Okman, 2011/09/04
- Re: [monit-dev] Feature suggestion: SNMP support in Monit,
Martin Pala <=
- Re: [monit-dev] Feature suggestion: SNMP support in Monit, Lior Okman, 2011/09/05
- Re: [monit-dev] Feature suggestion: SNMP support in Monit, Martin Pala, 2011/09/05
[monit-dev] Feature suggestion: SNMP support in Monit, Lior Okman, 2011/09/04