I seem to be missing part of this thread, and have  been 
gone most the week.

Re SNMP:  I haven't played with it myself, but there are ~100
Perl modules dealing with SNMP.  It would take some research
to determine which are the most useful, and go from there.

Definitely doable.  Maybe "Perl for DBA's" 2nd edition.  :)

Jared

On Wednesday 23 October 2002 16:16, John Kanagaraj wrote:
> Raj,
>
> I looked at the TCL scripts that comes along with OEM, and did see that
> SNMP is being used therein. If TCL can do it, I am sure Perl can do it.
> Jared - Any inputs?
>
> John Kanagaraj
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> Thanks Dennis, Gary
>
> I have tools at my disposal to monitor the db, and I have no problem with
> that. I was just reading through snmp and was intrigues by the idea that I
> could get some information without running scripts through sqlplus
> interface and if so how to accomplish that.
>
> I know it is doable because IA does that, just wondering if it would be
> feasible to do it be some scripting ...
>
> Raj
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> Raj - I'm no expert on SNMP, so maybe someone that is more knowledgeable
> will reply. I believe that SNMP underlies most of the monitoring tools on
> the market today. OEM may even use SNMP. I can see two approaches for you.
>    1. You write your own tool that will issue SNMP alerts. Perhaps this
> would be a Unix daemon process that executes database queries, and then
> based on what it finds, issues SNMP alerts.
>    2. Use an existing tool to accomplish what you want.
>
> If your desire is to create a database monitoring tool that you can give
> away for free, then sell to CA for a lot of money, take path #1. If your
> goal is to become a better DBA, then I would go with #2.
>
>
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>
> Has anyone implemented basic DB monitoring using snmp MIB information
> rather
>
> than running queries against the db?
>
> I am looking into this and have no clue or available docs on how to do this
> (esp on AIX). If someone can point me to the right direction, I would
> really
>
> appreciate that.
>
> TIA
> Raj
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