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Date:	Wed, 25 Apr 2001 03:59:40 PDT
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: SNMP followup

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dallas_kincyb wrote:
>
> 4) Most of the Agents, running in monitored
> devices are either built into the firmware or
> are daemons/servers that have to be fired up.

Hi Dallas,

1. Is SNMP for managing Network hardware, or is it for managing and
monitoring hardware over a network? The first is a subset of the
second.

---- RFC 1157 says SNMP is for network node management but it was
written 11 years ago.

---- OS/2's Help says:

Simple Network Management Protocol.
SNMP provides a way to manage the clients,
servers, gateways, and routers in a network.

but doesn't say if the more general "manage and monitor hardware
over a network" is also a typical use of SNMP.

2. The url you gave for MRTG examples -- http://mrtg.xidus.net/ --
reports more than basic hardware stats:

---- Is the raw data used to create these graphs accumulated by the
devices themselves (for example, is DNS/hr accumulated by the DNS server
or is it instead a measurement of port access summarized by a router, or
what)?

---- May a network printer report its usage and status, or is this
considered outside the realm of SNMP's purpose?

---- The MRTG example reports include one which apparently is reporting
server memory usage. What do you run on an OS/2 machine to get this
reporting capability?

3. What is your recommendation for a basic SNMP installation on a
network consisting of OS/2 machines, a couple of firewalls and some
printers?

Thanks,

- Peter

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