What would be a good technique to make sure that a network connection between a DMA and a 3rd party monitoring system is up and not losing packets?
The DMA SNMP Manager is forwarding SNMP traps to this other 3rd party system but sometimes there seems to be periods when the messages are not arriving. I would like to setup a heartbeat scenario between the DMA and the 3rd party tool and I am exploring ideas to accomplish this setup.
Possible ideas:
- setup a dummy element that is has a scheduled automation script to toggle a parameter at specific times. The 3rd Party system can then look at its data and see if the scheduled traps arrive?
- Pings (But this does not necessarily validate UDP traps are making it to the 3rd party tool.
Please submit any other solution ideas.
We use a scheduled task (every X minutes) which creates and information message with a specific text.
We've included that information message in the filter used in the SNMP manager.
This ensures the other side that at least every X minutes a trap is to be expected.