>>>>> "Steven" == Steven Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steven> What would be a reasonable price for an SNMP MIB & agent
Steven> to monitor AFS servers? Would $150 a server be considered
Steven> a 'reasonable' cost? Would a MIB + agent be more useful
Steven> than CMU's afsmon?
Is it an agent or a subagent? You really want the later. I guess $150
isn't very unreasonable, but if it's just for one application and not
extensible then that's another story.
There are (or were) were products on the market that allowed you to
launch scripts or executables and report the results back via SNMP
MIB's and traps. An example of this was IBM's Systems Monitor/6000.
HP, Sun and others also had similar products. I would go with one of
them instead of an agent customized to one particular application.
Actually, you could probably take the U Cal Davis SNMP stack and build
your own SNMP subagent or use a commercially available toolkit.
To be blunt though, SNMP is not really what you want for Systems Level
monitoring. It's very inefficient at moving data, there's problems
with the security even V2 (be careful that your monitors don't compromise your
AFS cell), data archival can be tricky, etc. You really want
something that is more like DMI or possibly ARM (an instrumentation
spec being pushed by Tivoli and HP).
If you want my opinion, you're best off with something like BMC Patrol
(and no I don't work for them). There are similar alternatives from
Tivoli, CA, HP and Sun. They all have products in this space and like
Patrol most integrate in some fashion with SNMP Managers.
Feel free to contact me off-line. I've done a lot of this in the past
with AFS, DCE/DFS, RDB's, ...
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Chris Cowan
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