Jim Your title could be restated as "The SNMP Agent supported by z/OS 'feeding' the SNMP Manager which happens to be supported by SolarWinds".
The point about the title change is that the "P" in "SNMP" means "protocol" and thus SNMP is designed to support any old IP platform as an SNMP agent and any old IP platform as an SNMP manager and the two will work harmoniously together! - You will find everything you need to know about how to set up "The SNMP Agent supported by z/OS" in 2.16, "Chapter 25. Simple Network Management Protocol" in the z/OS Communications Server IP Configuration Guide. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/f1a1b3b0/2.16 Details can be found in 25.0, "Chapter 25. Simple Network Management Protocol" in the z/OS Communications Server IP Configuration Reference. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/F1A1B4B0/25.0 You will find even more information in 7.0, "Managing TCP/IP network resources with SNMP" and several appendixes in the z/OS Communications Server IP System Administrator's Commands manual. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/F1A1C2A0/7.0 I have a suspicion your colleague who is dealing with the SolarWinds SNMP Manager product will have most interest in B.0, "Appendix B. Management Information Base (MIB) objects". http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/F1A1C2A0/B.0 - As I said initially SNMP is a "protocol" and so is documented quite independently from IBM. Thus there is an - I hope - acceptable tutorial provided as a Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Network_Management_Protocol - Since this is very firmly a z/OS Communications Server IP question, the most appropriate forum is the following: For IBMTCP-L subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO IBMTCP-L Chris Mason On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:05:45 -0600, Jim Marshall <jim.marsh...@opm.gov> wrote: >One of our Cyber Security folks is putting up a "NOC" (Network Operations >Center) and they purchased something called SolarWinds. Now they are on my >doorstep saying they want to scan my system along with DB2 and Oracle data >bases. This is COOL and then I asked how they intended to do this magic; >hey we can accept SNMP traffic. > >He said we already knew how to do all of this (guess it was my age and grey >hair). Besides asking for contacts within SolarWinds, I thought I might >throw this out to the community and see if anything rings a bell. > >Appreciate any info one might offer as to what I can do to get some pretty >displays on the wall of the NOC and inspire awe in people. > >jim ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
