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

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I think best thing for me is to install one of the SNMP 
maangers and play.  It appears that MRTG and OpenNMS 
both look very good.  After a quick review it appears 
there is going to be allot of setup (Tomcat, and 
Postgres which I jnow little about) to get OpenNMS up 
and running.  Although I did see I could douwnload all 
the RPMS from OpenNMS but it looked pretty confusing on 
whic RPMS I would want/need being that I have some 
packages already installed.  

What do you think would be the best for some just 
checking out what this SNMP is all about?

And a presentation on all this would be great!  When is 
it? :-)
> >Well, a great tool for using SNMP to get useful info is mrtg
> > (http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/), especially in
> 
> mrtg works great, we used to use it.
> 
> >conjuction with the round robin databse tool (rrdtool) also written by
> >Tobias Oetiker (http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/)
> 
> Yep, OpenNMS uses rrdtools well.  I think net-saint does as well.
> 
> >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.
> 
> How about a presentation?
> 
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