Trap your Alerts: An SNMP How-to using Java and Mule Enterprise Console

MMC Customer stories series: SNMP alerts
Motivation
We are evaluating using Nagios or a similar Big Brother Enterprise solution for displaying information about our many Enterprise Mule instances, applications and the status of our production and staging environments. The only sure thing is that we presented a budget for buying a couple of 55” monitors and were approved. Pure awesomeness!
First solution: Do it yourself
This is complicated.