On 7-01-24 21:28, Anton Gustafsson via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi Roderick! I agree, in this case it is mostly to satisfy my supervisor's need to follow protocol.
I can understand following but at a certain moment it feels like it becomes a bureaucracy,
Do a quick search for SNMP DOS agent. I assume you did that already :-) http://www.dmhsoftware.com/dosbased.php Disclaimer I have no clue how you can get an SNMP agenet on a DOS system....
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.
I was suspecting why these machines where not virtualized as they are controlling some custom hardware. Let me guess they use an old ISA card :-) And VM's do not have ISA passthrue option :-)
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.
I used to work on the eComStation project at Mensys up until 2012 and was working on OS/2 daily... I did look at the that IBM Systemview agent. I think it supports SNMP, but no clue...
If you are BTW looking for a update OS/2 version. A company from the US called Arca Noae LLC sells an OEM version of OS/2 called ArcaOS. Version 5.1.0. now even runs on UEFI hardware. OS/2 has a pretty decend DOS support build in. How that would work with special controller cards under DOS is another question. I just mention this because as time moves forward even getting machines that still have a legacy BIOS is getting somewhat of a problem...
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