[SNMP4J] SNMP4J on an application server like tomcat or jboss

[Eugene R. Snider]

I had no difficulty integrating with a tomcat J2EE application using a 
static subclass of the BaseAgent and packages located in the common ( or 
shared for Windows ) library directory. We use the Eclipse IDE so we 
imported SNMP4j as utility jars in our J2EE app which made the 
integration of static methods and objects with the application services 
extremely straightforward. So long as you do not have port conflicts you 
should experience few issues.

Under serious load one is inclined to use the Jakarta interface to the 
Apache HTTP server which will handle the load elegantly. We did not 
investigate this configuration and it may present other challenges.

As was noted elsewhere special problem arose when attempting to send v2c 
traps unrelated to the deployment configuration.

I'm preparing to publish an open source release of the relevant Eclipse 
components, this also manages a static instance of the agent in its own 
thread. I had to override initializaton and shutdown functions of course 
so that the thread pools could be collected. This applications listens 
for UDP or TCP  messages on a well defined port and uses the well 
formatted message data to manage the relevant IF-MIB tables ( ifTable, 
ifXTable, ifStackTable ). The well behaved way to do this would. of 
course, be a line sub-agent abstraction but if anyone could implement 
that well most of us would out of work....:-)

Gene

Georg Ungerböck wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am looking for information if it is possible to use the SNMP4j library in
> an environment with an application server like tomcat or jboss.
>
> Additionally threads (like the server thread of the SNMP4j to receive
> incoming SNMP messages) on such environments may cause problems.
>
> Does anybody know if this will work?
>
> Thanks,
> Georg
>
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