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Date:	Thu, 26 Apr 2001 02:22:22 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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leganii@surfree.com wrote:
>
> There are a various helper programs for MRTG available.

Do you have urls, or should I just start searching?

> > May a network printer report its usage and status
>
> If there is an OID for it in the MIBs, it is open for
> 'management'. For basic SNMP, it reports in
> response to commands, unless a trap is triggered.

I need to go through RFC 1157 (haven't looked at it yet) and see what
the states are. I'm not sure what handshaking takes place for a trap.

Is there a separate MIB (Management Information Base) for each Agent, or
does each Manager create its own MIB based on responses from the Agents
which it queries?

And who assigns the OIDs (Object Identifiers)?

> BSD has OIDs for kernel configuration, but I'm
> unsure if these are used by SNMP, but if so,
> then their sysctl command for changing kernel
> configuration on the fly is an extreme example.

Neat! Just think what could happen if you meant to tell your tape drive
to rewind but you accidentally used the kernel OID instead. :))

This true for all flavors of BSD?

> > What do you run on an OS/2 machine
> > to get MRTG reporting capability?
>
> SL answered this.

Not yet he didn't! :)

Hey Steven, Dallas defers to your wisdom . . .

> > What is your recommendation for a basic SNMP installation
>
> MRTG has been ported to OS/2, and unless
> this version is drasticly different from others, it
> requires Simon Leinen's Perl SNMP package, which will
> also provide configuring capabilities.

Do you have urls?

> The O'Reilly 'gopher' book (Perl for System Administrators)
> recommends using the UCD package for scripting, which are
> some stand alone programs.
> I'm curious how easy they are to compile under EMX etc.,
> (probably very) and these should work with Rexx also.

Do you have a url for the UCD package?

Dallas, I don't understand your "these should work with Rexx also"
statement.

You're suggesting/recommending:

-- MRTG (the OS/2 port)
-- Simon Leinen's Perl SNMP package
-- (implied) a Perl interpreter
-- UCD package
-- EMX development environment (I've got it)

Yes?

Let's do an EMX compile of the UCD package at the next Programming SIG.

- Peter

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