Dear Dave, Thanks for you immediate response.
Here is my requirement, perhaps you can suggest me something for my thesis work. I have to manage gateways and routers which are Linux boxes from a central place, like I want to modify the routing table and change the ip of one host. And I want to do the same for every machine in my network. I mean Can I change Objects in IF-MIB. I have looked the MIB.txt files in my system after the installation. Is there any way that I cant change them to read-only to read-write ( Not all objects, some of them atleast which are needed for my thesis study ) I am using fedora core 9. And I installed the net-snmp(Version : 5.4.1) package provided by fedora repositories. Some of the not objects not writable at all like Ip address. Can I enable all the Objects supports writing by means of changing the snmp mibs or any thing. Any thing possible by compiling the source code on my machine and install from scratch. So that I can get much more options with configure script provided in source tar ball. Or can this be achieved by writing an MIB and load it.? Correct me if I not understood the SNMP properly. Is it a good choice of choosing SNMP for these kind of project. I was thinking of SNMP only because it can be extended to any device which supports the protocol. (Not like Unix specific ssh or any other protocols ) . Please help me with this. Thanks and Regards, Gangadhar Chalapaka. Quoting Dave Shield <[email protected]>: > 2009/8/24 <[email protected]>: > > Is SNMP for monitoring only or Can change the objects on a host via > > SNMP set requests? > > SNMP *can* be used for active management, using SET requests, yes > > It's probably fair to say that most use tends to be monitoring rather > than management, and there are certainly limitations to what writable > objects are typically available. But the basic SNMP protocol does > support > making changes to the managed system > > > > If I want to change all objects like > > > > 1.ifconfig > > 2.routes > > 3.iptables. How should i proceed? > > Well the first thing you should do is to formulate your requirements > more clearly. > "Changing ifconfig" is too vague to be useful. You need to identify the > exact > changes you wish to make. > > I'd then suggest making these changes manually (using command-line > tools), > and examining the relevant MIB tables, to see what is affected. Then > you can > try applying the same object changes using SNMP SET requests, to see > whether > this has the desired effect. > > Dave > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list [email protected] Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users
