Darn... I sent my e-mail to Friedrich personally, instead of to the list...
Well, here goes again. A bit late I realize... On 11 Aug, 2006, at 22:25, Thomas Sluyter wrote: >> This book helped me get started, with SNMP it is important to know >> how >> everything fits together. It can seem a bit complex at first but I >> find > Not one word of this is a lie... "A bit complex" is actually a bit > of an understatement, since I was quite overwhelmed by the mishmash > of numeric strings. But once you get your head around the idea that > basically SNMP revolves around storing interesting bits of info > behind a long string of numbers, you'll get there. > > I've found out two important things though: > * every vendor has a completely unique SNMP sub-tree. I've been > through the ones for Dell, HP and Sun and none of 'em are alike... > That's to make things easy for us, you know? *sarcasm* > * a lot of vendors don't make it plainly obvious to you what data > is actually contained within an object. For example, a lot of > vendors have a whole big range of temperature sensors inside their > boxen. but for each of their systems you're going to have to find > out which object stores the temperature itself and then you have to > figure out which object actually fits which sensor location :D > > Now I hate to mention my own website for the third time today (I > actually really do), but recently I've been going through the MIBs > for Sun and HP. I've tried to dig up some information and OIDs for > interesting objects (temperature, HDD status, imminent failure on > various components). For a few systems I've listed the precise OIDs > and for all the others you can use the readable rehash of the MIBs > that I've done. Just sorted through the things a bit, to make'em > less confusing. > >> its flexibility very useful. You can then also use only one agent per >> machine for monitoring and statistics gathering, for example. > This is actually quite awesome indeed! We've completely thrown NRPE > out of the window and use SNMP exclusively now. It's a bit of a > bitch sometimes, but when it works, it works nicely! > > Cheers! > > > Thomas > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
