Question on traps and dialup

[Frank Fock]

Hello Ram,

You can find my comments inline:

Ram Krishnaswamy wrote:

> Our network to customer sites consists of a satellite going forward and a
> dialup coming back. There is no problem for the responses to come back if
> the dialup is connected (back to our central site). But the dialup may not
> always be up. Moreover, we are trying to use the proxy forwarder to send
> traps from various other snmp agents running on the customer network through
> the agent.
>
> Given this situation, the only way I can think of is to modify agent++ code
> to check whether the connection is up and then send the trap. If the
> connection is not up then I have to buffer all the traps until I bring it up
> using RAS (since it is NT) and then send the traps that have been buffered.
>

OK.

>
> Do you have any other ideas or suggestions? Offcourse, we cannot change the
> way we monitor our customer sites today because of various reasons.
> Hopefully, that will change in the future to one that has a dedicated
> connection.
>

I have no other ideas either. You probably could buffer the notifications
using the NOTIFICATION-LOG-MIB but will have to bring up the
back channel sooner or later anyway. So, you might better store them
directly in a queue and send them out when connection is up.

Best regards,
Frank