Re: [monit-dev] Feature suggestion: SNMP support in Monit

[Lior Okman]

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?
> 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.

> Best regards,
>
> Martin
Regards,

Lior