[SNMP4J] SNMP doubts

[Frank Fock]

Hi Bala,

Bala Subramaniam wrote:

>  Hi,
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>  I am a newbie to SNMP . I have some basic doubts on SNMP .
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>  (1) Can SNMP monitor only devices or shall we use to monitor some specific processes of an application . I mean can i make it to monitor cpu usage,load average of my application ?
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These basic application monitoring capabilities are provided by the 
systems agent
through the HOST-RESOURCES-MIB. There is no need to instrument your 
application
because this data can be provided through the operating system.

>  (2) If it is possible to monitor application through SNMP how my application will communicate with the SNMP agent?
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By a subagent protocol like AgentX or by implementing a separate SNMP agent.

>  (3) weather application will send data on request of agent or automatically at some specific interval the data can be sent?
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By using AgentX, data is provided on request.

>  Currently i am able to retreive information about my system using SNMP4J . But i would want to provide SNMP monitoring facility to my software . Any help would be grateful.
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You may wait for SNMP4J-Agent or use any other Java SNMP library to 
build your
own agent (if necessary at all - see above) or use a Java AgentX API to 
build a subagent
(requires the OS master agent to be AgentX capable).

Best regards,
Frank

Best regards,
Frank