[ale] Non polling monitoring packages

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 2 17:57:30 EDT 2007


On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 17:54 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 17:09 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > Someone asked me today if it was possible to receive SNMP traps from
> > Linux when bad things happen.  I've seen many products that could poll 
> > Linux severs but I've not seen anything that could be loaded on the
> > server and send out traps when say the disk is at 90% full or there are
> > read errors on the drive.
> > 
> > Anyone seen something like that?
> 
> Net-Snmp (aka can do this.  

typo above. originally typed "(aka UCD-Snmp)", then figured it was well
enough known these days as Net-Snmp. ;-)

-Jim P.




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