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Posted to log4j-user@logging.apache.org by Jin Zhao <JZ...@Qcorps.com> on 2001/10/02 01:09:37 UTC
Re: RE: SNMP appender?
>> -- I don't have time to implement the SNMP API from scratch, and
I couldn't
>> find anything on the Net that did it via Open Source (at least, nothing
>> usable). I finally ended up using a commercial SNMP library, from
>> AdventNet. There is no source code available, and you cannot
re-distribute
>> the Jars, or use them in production, without a license from AdventNet.
>> Thus, my appender is, strictly speaking, pretty useless as an
"official"
>> contribution. The AdventNet library is free for the download for
>> developers, however, and I figure that any customer needing SNMP
is likely
>> to be your larger company, with deep pockets for licenses, etc.
With that
>> in mind, it seemed sensible to make it available, on a "take it
or leave it"
>> basis, so here it is. If anybody knows of a good open
implementation of
>> SNMP in Java, point me to it, and I'll re-work this - the appender is
>> designed to try and make that as easy as possible.
Did you have a look at "www.opennms.org/files/releases/joeSNMP/" ?
There is a jsnmp project supporting snmp-1/2, which is LGPL liscienced.
Thanks a lot for contributing the snmp appender,
Jin
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