Re: looking for an SNMP trap management application (freeware, java)

From: Andrew (myfam_at_surfeu.fi)
Date: 04/30/04 

Date: 30 Apr 2004 09:09:27 -0700

Using CSCare for now. It has to be restarted every 24hours but cron
job does it perfectly :) for me...

User1001 <supraexpress@globaleyes.net> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.04.29.05.06.10.496366@globaleyes.net>...
> I haven't tried ZABBIX (www.zabbix.com) on Solaris yet, and it doesn't use
> JAVA, but it is opensource/freeware, has a web interface, and can be
> configured (if I remember correctly) to use different ports. I have had
> some problems in getting it configured as the PDF manual is incomplete in
> a number of places, and could use a better organization. Its screenshots
> show network maps, trap alerts, various user groups, and data graphs, but
> I haven't gotten it all to work yet.
>
> For non-web-based SNMP you could also try the net-snmp (v5.1.1) Perl
> package which provides an SNMPD with trap trigger functionality as well as
> local system resource monitoring. I have not tried all of its features,
> using only the trap-mail-forwarding function so far, which is easy to
> configure but doesn't offer any direct user change in the mail content,
> without looking into the Perl code.
>