[strongSwan] FW: IPSEC Monitor Tool

[Monti, Marco]

Hi, 

Agree the only way is SNMP is the standard protocol for network monitor

Than it could be easily linked to OpenNMS as monitor Manager

Cheers
Marco

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Schwartzkopff [mailto:ms at sys4.de] 
Sent: 01 August 2015 13:23
To: Nitin Agarwal
Cc: Monti, Marco
Subject: Re: IPSEC Monitor Tool

Am Samstag, 1. August 2015, 17:24:11 schrieb Nitin Agarwal:
> Hello Guys
> 
> We interacted on a post by Marco on Strongswan mailing list.
> I suggested to group for a separate dedicated tool for IPSEC monitor, 
> instead of SNMP and MIBs, which can run from server side.
> 
> Just need to check your reviews personally on this thing ?
> 
> 
> *Best Regards*
> *Nitin Agarwal*

I am opposed to develop anything else than a SNMP agent.

Reason: ALL (!) monitoring systems can speak SNMP. SNMP is the ONLY standard in monitoring. Everything else is only monitoring system specific.

So if we develop a SNMP agent fpr strongswan immideately all monitoring systems we be able to monitor the IPsec VPN installations.

Of course, you could do some quick and dirty scrpting to monitor your own setup. But I want a really good solution to the problem. And sticking to the standard is a good point to start with.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Michael Schwartzkopff

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