Matthew Palmer wrote:
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:10:56PM -0700, matthew zeier wrote:
and more to the point how the whole shebang (I'm using net-snmpd) is typically used.
Agent on device provides values, management app(s) collect data by polling (and possibly via traps), sysadmin gets to go home on time for once.
I have yet to see this work in practice however.
Yeah, I misread 'typically' as 'theoretically'. Practical experience is more like:
Agent on device lies about it's values, management apps collect lies (and ignore/lose traps), and the sysadmin has yet more software to swear at. <grin>
- Matt
Just for curiousities sake IASON is reading logs most of the time. proc2pl is reading the /proc filesystem. I did not find the time and equipment for testing so I used snmpwalk to write a file and read it just like any normal file or /proc. Processing the output of snmpwalk just got me the "normal" log file I was interested in. I tried writing back into snmp variables but I never got a HP Procurve switch to do what I wanted. When they used different MIBs for different families of their switches, I gave up. Now I see linux boxes most of the time. They all use different MIBs for different things. Reading /proc is much easier and there a fewer differences between the machines. The soho stuff I find mostly uses web interfaces sometimes a real linux with a real log but almost never snmp. Looks sad, but I am still interested as it could make things a lot easier. Cheers Peter and Karin -- Peter and Karin Dambier Cesidian Root - Radice Cesidiana Rimbacher Strasse 16 D-69509 Moerlenbach-Bonsweiher +49(6209)795-816 (Telekom) +49(6252)750-308 (VoIP: sipgate.de) mail: peter@peter-dambier.de mail: peter@echnaton.arl.pirates http://iason.site.voila.fr/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/iason/ http://www.cesidianroot.com/