[KLUG Members] What is this snmp thing all about?

[Daniel]

Well, a great tool for using SNMP to get useful info is mrtg (http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/), especially in conjuction with the round robin databse tool (rrdtool) also written by Tobias Oetiker (http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/)

Using mrtg, you can get all the info you are looking for - I have some documentation written up on pulling info from *nix boxen if you would like to see it, and http://www.snmp4tpc.com had some good *doze info last time I looked.

Keep in mind, though, that mrtg (as well as cricket and a few others) is basically just a tool to make pretty pictures with the info - the snmp utils available from net-snmp.sourceforge.net will also get you pretty much any info you need and allow you to put it in any format you like.


Bill Katsma extolled:
> I did little bit of browsing on SNMP and I was surprised on what I saw.
> Have I been oblivious to SNMP or are there just not a lot of people using
> it?
> 
> What can snmp be used for?  Some examples of use would be great.
> 
> Where can I learn more? any good resources out there?
> 
> Any recomandations on a SNMP manager?  Comercially it seems HP Openview and
> IBMs Tivoli is tops but what is availible out ther for Linux?
> 
> If I have a network of unix workstations/NT workstation is possible or
> feasible to monitor the some o all of its resource? It would kind of be nice
> to know when t is time to upgrade CPU/HD/Memory etc.
> 
> Thanks again
> 
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