SNMP Detector

Use this detector to find and assigns services based on SNMP. The detector binds a service with a given service name when a particular SNMP OID as scalar or table matches a given criteria.

Detector facts

Implementation

org.opennms.netmgt.provision.detector.snmp.SnmpDetector

Configuration and Use

Table 1. Parameters for the SNMP detector
Parameter Description Required Default value

oid

SNMP OID for scalar or table to detect the service.

required

.1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2.0

retry

Number of retries to detect the service.

optional

agent config

timeout

Timeout in milliseconds to wait for a response from the SNMP agent.

optional

agent config

vbvalue

Expected return value to detect the service; if not specified, the service is detected if the SNMP OID returned any kind of valid value. The vbvalue is evaluated as Java Regular Expression.

optional

-

hex

Set true if the data is from type HEX-String.

optional

false

isTable

Set true if detector should evaluate SNMP tables.

optional

false

matchType

Set match type to evaluate the expected value in the SNMP table.
EXIST: the expected vbalue is ignored, service detected if the given table under OID exist
ALL: all values in the table must match against expected vbalue to detect service
ANY: at least one value in the table must match against expected vbalue to detect service
NONE: None of the values should match against expected value to detect service.

optional

EXIST

useSnmpProfiles

Set true if detector should use SNMP profiles to detect SNMP service.

optional

false

ttl

Time to live in milliseconds to wait for a response from the Minion.

optional

20000

Example for SNMP scalar value

We have a Dell server farm and want to monitor the global server status provided by the OpenManage Server Administrator. Global status is provided by a scalar OID .1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.1.200.10.1.2.1. The service should be detected automatically if the server supports this OID.

For provisioning we have a requisition named Server, which contains all servers in our data center. We create a detector with the name Dell-OMSA-Global-State for this requisition with the following parameters:

Table 2. Parameters for the SNMP detector
Parameter Value

Name

Dell-OMSA-Global-State

oid

.1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.1.200.10.1.2.1

When the requisition Server synchronizes with the service, Dell-OMSA-Global-State will be detected if it supports the given SNMP OID.

Example using SNMP tables

We have a HP server farm and want to monitor the status of logical drives over SNMP provided from HP Insight Manager. The status for logical drives is provided in a SNMP Table under .1.3.6.1.4.1.232.3.2.3.1.1.4. The service should be automatically assigned to all servers exposing the given SNMP OID.

For provisioning we have a requisition named Server which contains all server of our data center. A Detector with the name HP-Insight-Drive-Logical for this requisition is created with the following parameter:

Table 3. Parameters for the SNMP detector
Parameter Value

Name

HP-Insight-Drive-Logical

oid

.1.3.6.1.4.1.232.3.2.3.1.1.4

isTable

true

When the requisition Server is synchronized the service HP-Insight-Drive-Logical will be detected in case they support the given SNMP OID table.