[ale] Non polling monitoring packages

[Jim Popovitch]

On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 17:09 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Someone asked me today if it was possible to receive SNMP traps from
> Linux when bad things happen.  I've seen many products that could poll 
> Linux severs but I've not seen anything that could be loaded on the
> server and send out traps when say the disk is at 90% full or there are
> read errors on the drive.
> 
> Anyone seen something like that?

Net-Snmp (aka can do this.  You just need to add some configuration to
snmpd.conf.  I don't recall the exact configs, but there should be
several available via Google.

-Jim P.