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

[Buist Justin]

You could grab 'snmpwalk' and related tools to start exploring the different types of information you can query w/ SNMP.  You can get yourself acquainted with the ideas of community strings and MIBs and such then, and you'll know which machines have SNMP servers running and such.

Justin Buist

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bkatsma@attbi.com [mailto:bkatsma@attbi.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 12:47 PM
> To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
> Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] What is this snmp thing all about?
> 
> 
> 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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