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Date:	Thu, 26 Apr 2001 22:46:54 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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Steven Levine wrote:
>
> >OS/2's Help doesn't give info on these agents when I
> >search on "SNMP". Neither does dir /s | find /i "snmp".
> >Get me started here -- what are these agents?
>
> There are several help search tools available. Dir/s etc.
> is probably the worst choice for anything but finding file
> names lost to early Altzheimers. I often use it for this.

I ran dir /s because any SNMP .hlp/.inf filename *might* contain the
string "snmp".

> The Master Index is OK for stuff that's obvious.
> Since it's obvious, someone thought to index it.

Yes. Silly me -- I thought it would be obvious to IBM that someone
looking for SNMP info would assume they indexed it on the keyword
"SNMP".

> For the less obvious stuff a full library search using
> view tends to work better. The downside is it works only
> searches .inf files, it ties up the desktop while searching
> and it does not report the document title. Of course, you
> also need to have a correctly set up BOOKSHELF.

My CONFIG.SYS has:

SET
BOOKSHELF=G:\OS2\BOOK;H:\BonusPak\askpsp\books;G:\MMOS2;g:\tcpip\help;h:\GU20;

What's your CONFIG.SYS "SET BOOKSHELF=" look like?

> Newview (see Hobbes) reports the
> titles, but tends to crash here.

Tends to crash here too. Workaround here (found by lots of "what if?"
testing) is to _not_ run it full-screen. When I run it in a small
window it doesn't crash. There's a window size (about two-thirds of my
1600x1200 iirc) at which it crashes. Might be an unusual call sequence
that my Elsa driver can't handle -- haven't tried SciTech to see if that
works better.

> If you have a copy of Devcon R1V12, it contains
> one of the better .inf/.hlp search engines.

No got.

> A search for snmp here using view turns up 100's of hits.

A search for snmp here using view turns up 1 hit on "all sections" and 8
hits on "all libraries" (but two of them are duplicates). How did you
get 100's of hits?

One of the hits says to see the "SystemView Agent for OS/2 User's
Guide". No got that either. The hit's page says:

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) provides a
means for managing an internet environment. SNMP allows
network management by elements, such as gateways, routers,
and hosts. Network elements act as servers and contain
management agents, which perform the management functions
requested. Network management stations act as clients;
they run the management applications, which monitor and
control the network. SNMP provides a means of
communicating between these elements and stations so they
can send and receive information about network resources.
SNMP support is provided by the SystemView Agent.

For more information about network management, see RFCs
1155, 1157, 1187, and 1213. For information about the
SystemView Agent, see the SystemView Agent for OS/2 User's
Guide.

Searching on "SystemView" turns up nothing further.

So, like, Mr. Steven, what's the answer to my paragraph 1 question --
"what are these agents?" You no got?

- Peter

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