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iControl as SNMP Agent
iControl SNMP agents allow third party SNMP managers, such as Spectrum, to monitor an
iControl configuration. There are two types of iControl SNMP agents:
• the GSM SNMP agent
• the AppServer Health Monitoring agent
GSM SNMP Agent
The GSM SNMP agent is an iControl plug-in that allows reporting statuses and alarms for all
managed devices over SNMP. It reports the status and alarms of cards in the form of an SNMP
table that can be queried or polled by a third party SNMP manager. The GSM SNMP agent also
enables iControl to send traps to a third party SNMP manager.
Figure 8-100
AppServer Health Monitoring Agent
The AppServer Health Monitoring agent is an iControl plug-in based on Net-SNMP — a
popular open-source health monitoring package (see
www.net‐snmp.org
) consisting of an
SNMP daemon (snmpd), an SNMP agent for Linux hosts, and several utilities. iControl’s
customized version of Net-SNMP allows a third party SNMP manager to monitor various
aspects of an Application Server (e.g. network interface statistics, processor/memory usage,