First let me start with an apology. I'm sorry for the lack of information here, but I am COMPLETELY NEW to anything SNMP.

I have a simple little program that forks off a number of childred (20) to ping network hosts. It's pretty slick and efficient. It was originally written for a small group here in my office when they need to check the connectivity of our clients routers.

Appearently it is a little to nice, I have now been asked to SNMP enable it. We currently use a monitoring program (Netcool) to watch certain devices. The higher up-s in my company have heard of my ping program and now i have to send SNMP traps to the monitoring software when a destination dosen't respond for 'X' pings.

I like this idea and I am very eager to do it, only one problem, I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT SNMP. I have searched the web and am gaining an understanding, but I am on a tight timeline. I was hoping that someone could tell me how to send an SNMP trap from an application using NET::SNMP or point me to somewhere where I can figure it out. Quite frankly the doc on CPAN didn't clear anything up for me.

Also, I think I have a slight handle on creating the MIB, but some clarification on those or links would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Chad.

In reply to NET::SNMP ?????? by gnu@perl

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