Chapter 12. Adapting SNMP to Fit Your Environment

SNMP can make your life as a system administrator a lot easier by performing many of the tasks that you'd either have to do by hand or automate by writing some clever script. It's relatively easy to take care of most everyday system monitoring: SNMP can poll for disk-space utilization, notify you when mirrors are syncing, or record who is logging in or out of the system. The SNMP scripts in this chapter represent just a few of the things SNMP allows you to do; use them as a launching pad for your own ideas.