On 18/12/12 20:19, David Nalley wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 6:12 AM, Anshul Gangwar
> <anshul.gang...@citrix.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Currently CloudStack shows alerts on dashboard and can send email
>> alerts. With this feature it will be able to send SNMP alerts to
>> configured external SNMP Managers. Currently I am planning to send SNMP
>> traps for the alerts which are supported in CloudStack 4.0. I am
>> planning to use snmp4j library available under Apache License to
>> implement this feature.
> Fascinating - I am looking forward to seeing this!
>
>> - Currently planning to support up to 20 SNMP managers
> This seems arbitrary. Why 20?
>
>> - Version 1 and 2 will be supported
>
> Why not v3 as well? SNMPv1 is practically deprecated, so why bother
> with v1? v2 is a nice middle ground - v3 is where everyone wishes to
> be if they could start from scratch.
>
>> - We need a unique SNMP OID for CloudStack. We need to register with
>> IANA. Is there an established process in Apache to follow and get one?
> I'll be happy to figure out how this gets done. - Actually some quick
> googling shows that the ASF already has an enterprise OID - and one of
> our mentors has documented that here:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/DIRxPMGT/oid-assignment-scheme.html
> I will follow up with Alex and see if we can get an assignment.
Hi David,
Is there any OID which I can use to start development.
>
>
>
> So your idea here seems like it is targeting just sending traps, but
> I'm far more interested long-term in being able to query the SNMP
> daemon (and there likely will already be one on the host); so as you
> are designing the MIB please do plan ahead for such things. The page
> above is a good starting point around MIB design.
>
> If you need help around this, I am happy to lend what little I know
> about the subject of SNMP, or connect you with experts in the field.
>
> --David
Thanks,
Anshul
