topic SNMP monitoring: traps or thresholds? in Network Security https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/snmp-monitoring-traps-or-thresholds/m-p/135648#M1060887 <P>I'm in the process of deploying an SNMP infrastructure for our network using OpenNMS, and am wondering if I should use either traps or thresholds (or both?) to detect Cisco events such as high router/switch temperature, high CPU usage, etc. </P><P></P><P>I've always thought of traps as being the standard way to be notified of such things, but with UDP there's no guarantee that the NMS will ever see a given trap. By using thresholds (i.e., monitoring an OID an alarming when it exceeds a certain value), the NMS will detect the event on it's own and can react accordingly. So I am undecided on which method to use.</P><P></P><P>I'd appreciate any advice from those of you who use SNMP.</P><P></P><P>Thanks,</P><P>Terry</P> Fri, 21 Feb 2020 06:36:16 GMT t.baranski 2020-02-21T06:36:16Z SNMP monitoring: traps or thresholds? https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/snmp-monitoring-traps-or-thresholds/m-p/135648#M1060887 <P>I'm in the process of deploying an SNMP infrastructure for our network using OpenNMS, and am wondering if I should use either traps or thresholds (or both?) to detect Cisco events such as high router/switch temperature, high CPU usage, etc. </P><P></P><P>I've always thought of traps as being the standard way to be notified of such things, but with UDP there's no guarantee that the NMS will ever see a given trap. By using thresholds (i.e., monitoring an OID an alarming when it exceeds a certain value), the NMS will detect the event on it's own and can react accordingly. So I am undecided on which method to use.</P><P></P><P>I'd appreciate any advice from those of you who use SNMP.</P><P></P><P>Thanks,</P><P>Terry</P> Fri, 21 Feb 2020 06:36:16 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/snmp-monitoring-traps-or-thresholds/m-p/135648#M1060887 t.baranski 2020-02-21T06:36:16Z Re: SNMP monitoring: traps or thresholds? https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/snmp-monitoring-traps-or-thresholds/m-p/135649#M1060890 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>For certains things like CPU, Memory, there are not traps. Therefore, you'll have to setup thresholds for these any way.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 06 Mar 2003 17:24:51 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/snmp-monitoring-traps-or-thresholds/m-p/135649#M1060890 rmushtaq 2003-03-06T17:24:51Z Re: SNMP monitoring: traps or thresholds? https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/snmp-monitoring-traps-or-thresholds/m-p/135650#M1060891 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>If you decide on a SNMP performance monitoring software please let me know and I can forward an eval. CD with a 30 day key.</P><P><A href="mailto:jose.burgos@linmor.com">jose.burgos@linmor.com</A> <A class="jive-link-custom" href="http://www.linmor.com" target="_blank">www.linmor.com</A></P><P>Geared toward Cisco devices.</P><P>-Jose</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 08 Mar 2003 00:26:32 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/snmp-monitoring-traps-or-thresholds/m-p/135650#M1060891 joburgos 2003-03-08T00:26:32Z