>>>>> On Wed, 18 May 2005 15:03:46 +0100 (BST), shrikanth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
>>>>> said:

shrikanth> Right now i am in to a project to develop an application
shrikanth> titled "Network Topology discovery" using SNMP protocol.As
shrikanth> part of the discovery my application should discover the
shrikanth> kinds of nodes in the N/W(like routers,pc) and also should
shrikanth> dicover the kind of OS running on the system.

shrikanth> Kindly help how to start developing it & kindly give
shrikanth> me some ideas.

discovery is a very hard problem to do reliably.  From the SNMP aspect
only (I won't talk about ping, etc) I suggest you start by querying
the sysObjectID.0 value which should tell you what agent is running on
the machine.

-- 
Wes Hardaker
Sparta, Inc.


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