Sending SNMP traps ?

[Andreas Ericsson]

Igor Sergejeff wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  I would like Nagios to sending SNMP traps to another host. I read the FAQ
> about this, saying "If you want to have Nagios send an SNMP trap to a
> management host in the event that a particular service has a problem, you
> will have to write a service event handler script and add it to the
> event_handler option of the service definition. If you have the NET-SNMP
> package installed on your host, you could have the script call the snmptrap
> command to actually send a trap message, depending on what type of service
> event occurred."
> Do I need to install NET-SNMP in order to sending traps ?

Yes, you do. You need the snmptrap program to send traps.

> Are there anything except this to make this working ?
> 

Yes. Simply installing it won't make nagios automagically send traps for 
every problem that may arise. You'll have to do a lot of configuring and 
script-hacking for it to work. Look into event-handlers in the nagios 
documentation.

> Regards, Igor.
> 

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