SNMP / HP OpenView

[john.cooke]

Hi,

One of my customers is looking to move from WLS 6.1 to JBoss. They're fairly happy with most things, but before they do they need to understand how (if) they would monitor the running system.

Their standard is HP OpenView and they currently use an SNMP plug-in to WebLogic. I've looked around and so far haven't found any SNMP plug-ins for JBoss.

Anyone have any experience with this and recommendations?

Thanks
John

[jonlee]

You'd probably need to build your own JMX plug-in. Adventnet (www.adventnet.com) provide an engine to create your own snmp instrumentation but I don't know the monetary cost or your client budget. They do seem to have a bunch of monitoring stuff for J2EE containers and claim to work with JBoss 3.x

You might also consider building your own JMX - using open source components - depending on the complexity required. For example, this library is available: http://edge.mcs.drexel.edu/GICL/people/sevy/snmp/snmp_package_introduction.html and I am sure there are more, if you know how to build an MBean and glue your SNMP agent code to it.

[jonlee]

My bad. I was looking at some SNMP client code and copied the link from there. I really meant the Java wrapper for the net-snmp open source at http://netsnmpj.sourceforge.net/. There are a few issues with this so the least pain still seems to be the Adventnet way - as long as the client has the budget.

[john.cooke]

Thanks.

I'll have a look.

My guess (I don't know) is that they'll have a reasonable budget available since they'd be saving money not buying WLS licenses - which is their default option if their investigation into JBoss doesn't give them a warm feeling about JBoss.

Thanks
John

[openllg]

Hi,

if you read the changelog of the 3.2.1 version, you will see that there is a log4j snmp trap appender