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Kelemvor
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2 months ago

Does anyone have a Module just to check if SNMP is working at all?

Hi, We have a lot of times where a server will stop responding to SNMP checks for whatever reason.  That will generally turn CPU, File System, Uptime, etc all to No Data responses.  We generally hav...
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Allister
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6 days ago

Did anyone find a solution for a simple datasource to alert if SNMP is not working?

I know we can use Uptime to alert on 'no data' polls but agree with Kelemvor that more often than not these alerts get ignored.

It would be nice to have something similar to the (say) vmware troubleshooter, which appears if SNMP is not working, but that we have the ability (perhaps via a property) to enable or disable this, as often times we might be doing ping-only monitoring of a device which doesn't support SNMP.