Running back script to check a nodes arp table

Question

I have a bug I need to track where a Firewall loses an arp entry. At this point I have a bash  script using snmp that grabs the arp table, pattern excludes the know internal ip's, redirects the output to a file. I than check the file for 5 lines which indicates it has 5 external arp entries and all is good, If I don't get 5 lines it emails me the device name and what arp entries it has.

How do I go about trying to do something similar in orion natively, if that is even possible.

monitoringlife · Answer

If you already have the script written (and have SAM license) its fairly short path to adding a script monitor and alerting on the script output.

If your node does not support SSH so the node can natively support the SAM component you could put it on another node or polling engine.