After threshold breached send SNMP traps

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frostyritz
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After threshold breached send SNMP traps

Post by frostyritz »

Is there a plugin that will do that as in if a thold is breached it sends an email But can we setup trap information from it as well.


i saw this but its dated back like 5 years ago.
http://blog.cactiusers.org/2009/02/25/t ... -of-thold/


thanks ;)
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Re: After threshold breached send SNMP traps

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Works with the latest SVN release of THOLD in combination with the Cacti SNMPAgent plugin for net-snmp.
I still need to commit some changes before Jimmy can release a new version of THOLD, which will also include a THOLD daemon.
(This will allow to run the threshold monitoring on a dedicated server without any influence to the poller itself - I'm monitoring more than 125k of thresholds with CDEFs using that way.)

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Re: After threshold breached send SNMP traps

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Hi guys

I needed to send antoher information besides email when a threshold is breached .

I searched for a way to run an external script but it seems now its not possible.
Also tried to edit thold_functions.php file but im not a programmer :)

I added Cacti SNMPAgent plugin to the cacti server but the default MIB files dont have CACTI-THOLD-MIB in it.

I am attaching the picture which references CACTI-THOLD-MIB.

Can you please tell me where from to download the CACTI-THOLD-MIB?

Thanks in advance.
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sudoritz
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Re: After threshold breached send SNMP traps

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0hhhh is there a way i can send the SNMPTrap then after it sends the Thold alert ?

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Re: After threshold breached send SNMP traps

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I might of found a workaround hack fix but i gotta get it better

But i have the Thold syslog to a facility 4 and then i take that data and parse it to another syslog file on the server which then i inspect all incomging logs and read per line and script based on template name and do lookups and then IF confirmed issue i script a snmptrap command.


I need to look for somethign better then a constant tail -f and do something like a Fail2Ban setup but not for just IPs but more for If certain keywords show up from a template i can trigger other scripts and / or snmptrap etc etc
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Re: After threshold breached send SNMP traps

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You can use snmpagent plugin available in sourceforge along with Thold 0.6.0 (updated by snmpagent developer) available in beta in Cacti SVN.

It works great apart from two issues if using snmp v3:

1. When setting up snmp v3 with SHA, the plugin tries to confirm the authoritative password. Even when the password in both fields match, it throws an error saying they don't match! I have worked around this by commenting out the check function in manager.php of snmpagent plugin. I have raised it with the developer and hopefully it will officially be fixed:

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if ($save["snmp_version"] == 3 && ($save["snmp_auth_password"] != $save["snmp_auth_password_confirm"])) {
                           raise_message(4);
                     }
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/*if ($save["snmp_version"] == 3 && ($save["snmp_auth_password"] != $save["snmp_auth_password_confirm"])) {
                           raise_message(4);
                     }*/
2. It seems Engine ID for SNMP v3 traps has not been taken into acount. So when the plugin generates traps every trap has a different engine ID which can not be managed by many snmp receivers as they require one unique engin ID per device. Again I have worked around this by hard coding a engine-id in setup.php of snmpagent plugin:

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$args = " -v 3 " . (($notification_manager["snmp_message_type"] == 2 )? " -Ci " : "" ) .  " -u " . $notification_manager["snmp_username"];
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$args = " -v 3  -e 12345678" . (($notification_manager["snmp_message_type"] == 2 )? " -Ci " : "" ) .  " -u " . $notification_manager["snmp_username"];
Note that in the above code the "e" argument of snmptrap tool is used. The engine ID has to be in HEX. I have just used an example!

Also note that cacti-snmpagent needs snmptrap binary and you can point to it in the settings in Cacti
An official fix to both these issues would be good. I have raised both with the snmpagent developer.
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Re: After threshold breached send SNMP traps

Post by browniebraun »

A new version of the SNMPAgent plugin addresses both bugs.
Password validation is working now and administrators are allowed to configure the SNMP Engine ID per notification receiver individually.
Additionally a new, much much faster and more scaling persistent daemon for Net-SNMP has become available with this new release.

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Re: After threshold breached send SNMP traps

Post by Rikii16 »

Hello Browniebraun,

How can we config the plugin snmpagent on cacti version 1.2.23/1.2.24, we want to send snmptraps from thold to another server.

Best,
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Andi/Browniebraun may not reach out to you. Let's hope he does.
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