SNMP alerting

[KathleenAparte]

Hi,

We're setting up an alert in SNMP to monitor the replication status of our RSA servers.

Can you help to provide an OID that will return 1 for replication healthy and 0 for replication failed?

Cos currently, we don't have a means of polling a metric where the response is a non-numeric string. 

Thanks,

Kathleen

[EdwardDavis]

For replication status, there is only a string.

You can use snmpget and then convert the string to a value and pass that value forward, possibly.

Here is one example of fetching status and echoing a value 0-4:

https://community.rsa.com/message/945756?commentID=945756#comment-945756 

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This is one way I'd do it in a lab if I did not have flexibility in my SNMP monitoring software

to handle strings, nor be able to echo a value as input to another process:

-snmpget to fetch the AM OID string, and then use a script to create a value,

-snmpset that value to another SNMP device 'notes/location/address...etc'

or otherwise less important OID where you can set variables,

-monitor that device OID in your SNMP tool to monitor replication status, now a number and not a string.

Authentication Manager does not support SNMP sets, hence a different device or 'mule' to use for replication status storage.

[JayGuillette]

There is also a built-in Critical Event email notification for Replication Status in the Security Console - Setup - System, if SNMP does not work out.