engine-snmp

oVirt Engine SNMP Traps

ATTENTION: This page is no longer up to date as of ovirt-engine-3.5.0 that introduced MIB support at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1136818

See also Features/configuration-event-subscribers.

Summary

This feature extends events notifier capabilities and enables it to generate SNMP traps out of system events to integrate oVirt with generic monitoring systems.

Owner

• Name: Mooli Tayer (mtayer)
• Name: Arthur Berezin (aberezin)

Current status

• Target Release: 3.4
• Status: Post

Benefit to oVirt

Allow oVirt users to monitor their virtualization environment with open source or proprietary monitoring systems such as Nagios, BMC Patrol, HP OpenView, etc.

Detailed Description

This feature extends the capabilities of the ovirt-engine-notifier to send all engine events and events’ data via SNMP traps version 2c. A new ‘SNMP_TRAP Notifications’ section is now available in the notifier’s configuration file under /usr/share/ovirt-engine/services/ovirt-engine-notifier/ovirt-engine-notifier.conf (It’s advisable to leave that file as is and define override file[s] under /etc/ovirt-engine/notifier/notifier.conf.d/) Lets take a look;

  #-------------------------#
  # SNMP_TRAP Notifications #
  #-------------------------#
  # Send v2c snmp notifications
  # Minimum SNMP configuration
  #
  # Create @ENGINE_ETC@/notifier/notifier.conf.d/20-snmp.conf with:
  # SNMP_MANAGERS="host"
  # FILTERS="include:*(snmp:) ${FILTERS}"
  # Default whitespace separated IP/DNS list with optional port, default is 162.
  # SNMP_MANAGERS=manager1.example.com manager2.example.com:164
  SNMP_MANAGERS=
  # Default SNMP Community String.
  SNMP_COMMUNITY=public
  # Default TRAP Object Identifier for alerts.
  #
  # iso.organization.DoD.Internet.private.enterprises.redhat.ovirt-engine.notifications.audit-log
  # 1.3.6.1.4.1.2312.13.1.1
  SNMP_OID=1.3.6.1.4.1.2312.13.1.1
  #
  # SNMP profile support
  #
  # Multiple SNMP profiles are supported.
  # Specify profile settings by using _profile suffix,
  # for example, to define a profile to sent specific
  # message to host3, specify:
  # SNMP_MANAGERS_profile1=host3
  # FILTER="include:VDC_START(snmp:profile1) ${FILTER}"
  #

Notes:

• At least one of SNMP_MANAGERS & MAIL_SERVER must be properly defined in order for the notifier to run.

Messages

Using the default value for SNMP_OID (1.3.6.1.4.1.2312.13.1), traps will show up as:

  SNMPv2-MIB::snmpTrapOID.0 = OID: SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.2312.13.1.0.30    SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.2312.13.1.0.30.0 = STRING: "User admin@internal logged in." SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.2312.13.1.0.30.1 = STRING: "NORMAL" SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.2312.13.1.0.30.2 = STRING: "alertMessage"   SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.2312.13.1.0.30.3 = STRING: "2014-01-12 07:14:22.576"

• SNMPv2-MIB::snmpTrapOID represents the trap id for this event. we have our OID appended with 0 (because this is an enterprise specific trap). finally 30 is appended as well. This value is specific to this trap type: USER_VDC_LOGIN.

• After that you can see different values associated with this trap:
• After that you can see different values associated with this trap:

Testing

This section contains instructions on setting up an snmp manager capable of receiving traps. Tested under fedora 20 (please update if it worked for you on a different version).

  # yum install -y net-snmp

Edit the trap daemon configuration file, /etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf:

  # Example configuration file for snmptrapd
  #
  # No traps are handled by default, you must edit this file!
  #
  authCommunity   log,execute,net public
  # traphandle SNMPv2-MIB::coldStart    /usr/bin/bin/my_great_script cold
  [snmp]
  logOption f /tmp/snmptrapd.log

Start the service:

  # service snmptrapd start

Test service by sending a trap:

  # yum install -y  net-snmp-utils
  $ snmptrap -v 2c -c public localhost "" 1.2 SNMPv2-MIB::sysLocation.0 s "just here"

Incoming traps should now be available in /tmp/snmptrapd.log.

See fodora instructions for net-snmp and the net-snmp project page for further instructions.