Hi Roderick! I agree, in this case it is mostly to satisfy my
supervisor's need to follow protocol. All machines in the network are
supposed monitored (load, mem, swap etc) using a software called Zabbix
which has the ability to use either their own agent, ICMP or SNMP.
It is possible to use Zabbix without an agent, and for example only
check availability over ICMP pings. It is a slight workaround, since the
actual frontend on Zabbix shows hosts as unavailable when not using an
agent, though they it is possible to configure the system not to send
"host_down"-emails. There seem to be disagreements within the Zabbix
developer community whether this is a bug or a feature.
Anyway it feels a bit redundant since these machines are custom hardware
controllers and are integrated in the rest of the process system, and
the control room interacts with these machines continuously.
We happen to have a OS/2 machine in production as well, and it did not
have supervision either. If you are interested in monitoring, I found
this the last week: "IBM SystemView Agent v1.4.3 for OS/2". It is
available free on the internet. It is running well, however I haven't
had the time read up on configuration, so it is only in "default" mode,
showing that host is up.
Anton
On 2024-01-06 23:51, Roderick Klein via Freedos-user wrote:
On 6-01-24 18:24, Anton Gustafsson via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi!
We have a few network connected FreeDOS machines, running on an isolated
network using MSClient. I have been instructed that all our machines on
the network should be monitored, by either SNMP or a Zabbix agent, and
not ICMP ping only.
I havn't been able to find anything on the internet. I guess that DOS
wasn't designed to run in such a way that more advanced monitoring was
necessary? Have any of you guys heard of an SNMP agent for DOS?
Never really heard of it.... But even if you have an SNMP agent what
should the SNMP agent report on DOS ?
I am not expert what so ever. However the SNMP protocol is pretty
generic. It can be used to monitor a UPS for servers or monitor a
printer. But can use SNMTP.
So even if you have SNMP client what should it monitor on thr FreeDOS
system ? Disc space ? DOS programs being started ?
Myself I use ArcaOS (OS/2 clone) and it does not have an SNMP client
build in (not that I am aware of at least).
Roderick
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