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

[Daniel]

Oh yeah, almost forgot. You will probably see plenty of reference to ucd-snmp (as in Univ. of CA, Davis) and net-snmp. 
ucd-snmp and net-snmp are the same - development just moved from UCDavis to sourceforge. Basically, though, ucd-snmp referds to version 4.2.2 and lower, net-snmp refers to current 5.x series. The command are slightly different, but each version has its own tutorial:

ucd = http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/tutorial/
net = http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/tutorial-5/


Daniel extolled:
> Well, IMHO the best thing to do is to install net-snmp on a few machines, and use all the snmp utils to play around with it (snmpwalk, snmpget, snmpset, so on....)
> 
> If you want a quick intro to the usefullness of this info, install mrtg and get it running - should take you about 10 minutes as it is not complicated at all. Of course, mrtg is not useful to you unless you already have snmpd up and answering queries on the box you want to look at.
> 
> As for a presentation, I could see about whipping something up, but I am in the process of moving so don't hold your breath :) Feel free to ask anything you do not understand though. 
> 
> http://netophilia.net contains some info (although it is slightly outdated at the moment). I will try to update it with some more recent info soon.
> 
> 
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> bkatsma@attbi.com extolled:
> 
> > 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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