Thanks Jens, I did have a quick look at the processes associated with
Ethereal, unfortunately there's just a single process irrespective of
whether or not it's actively capturing.
Thanks
Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jens Link
Sent: 24 May 2006 12:18
To: Ethereal user support
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Monitoring Ethereal process via SNMP
"Champion, Tim" <Tim.Champion@xxxxxxx> writes:
> Greetings all. I am trying to find out if it?s possible to monitor the
> Ethereal process/s via SNMP. What I am trying to achieve specifically
is
> to have a server with Ethereal capturing 24x7 using a FIFO buffer. I
> would then use SNMP to tell me that the server was capturing so I
> wouldni't need to keep checking (as there are going to be a number of
> these servers).
Using net-snmp you can use the "proc" directive.
man 5 snmpd.conf:
,----
| Directives
| proc NAME
|
| [...]
|
| Checks to see if processes called NAME are running on
| the agent machine. An error flag (1) and a description
| message are then passed to the 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.2.1.100 and
| 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.2.1.101 MIB columns (respectively) if the
| NAME'd program is not found in the process table as reported
| by " -acx".
`----
Jens
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