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Special Forums UNIX and Linux Applications Infrastructure Monitoring Monitoring tools that do NOT require root privileges Post 302967199 by Peasant on Saturday 20th of February 2016 11:23:41 PM

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Depending what you want to monitor SNMPv3 could satisfy your needs.

You will need to install 'something' tho, in this case net-snmp, but you won't be installing any 'agents'.
(I do not condone agents, especially closed source ones.)
Also net-snmp is already present on most linux/unix machines, it will need some configuration love, but not much (creating users, disabling public community strings and alike).

On the external node you will have to setup something to send snmp requests.
Various software exists, a lot of it is free (Cacti, Nagios and alike) which will graph performance (RRD tool) and send alerts when thresholds are breached.

Hope that helps
Regards
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cups-snmp.conf

snmp.conf(5)							    Apple Inc.							      snmp.conf(5)

NAME

       snmp.conf - snmp configuration file for cups

DESCRIPTION

       The  snmp.conf file configures how the standard CUPS network backends (http, https, ipp, ipps, lpd, snmp, and socket) access printer infor-
       mation using SNMPv1 and is normally located in the /etc/cups directory. Each line in the file can be a  configuration  directive,  a  blank
       line, or a comment. Comment lines start with the # character.

       The Community and DebugLevel directives are used by all backends. The remainder apply only to the SNMP backend (cups-snmp(8)).

DIRECTIVES

       The following directives are understood by the CUPS network backends. Consult the on-line help for detailed descriptions:

       Address @IF(name)

       Address @LOCAL

       Address address
	    Sends SNMP broadcast queries to the specified address(es). There is no default for the broadcast address.

       Community name
	    Specifies the community name to use. Only a single community name may be specified. The default community name is "public".

       DebugLevel number
	    Specifies  the  logging  level  from  0 (none) to 3 (everything). Typically only used for debugging (thus the name). The default debug
	    level is 0.

       DeviceURI "regular expression" device-uri [... device-uri]
	    Specifies one or more device URIs that should be used for a given make and model string. The regular expression is used to	match  the
	    detected  make  and  model,  and  the  device  URI	strings must be of the form "scheme://%s[:port]/[path]", where "%s" represents the
	    detected address or hostname. There are no default device URI matching rules.

       HostNameLookups on

       HostNameLookups off
	    Specifies whether the addresses of printers should be converted to hostnames or left as numeric IP addresses. The default is "off".

       MaxRunTime seconds
	    Specifies the maximum number of seconds that the SNMP backend will scan the network for printers. The default is 120 seconds  (2  min-
	    utes).

SEE ALSO

       cups-snmp(8),
       http://localhost:631/help

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2007-2013 by Apple Inc.

23 April 2012							       CUPS							      snmp.conf(5)