How it works:
SNMP is just a protocol by which managers like Netview talk to agents on
devices. The things we are interested in knowing from most network devices
are known by the snmp agents on those devices. For servers, it is a little
less
well-developed. The basic snmp agents on most servers know a little about
who and what it is, and can answer a few questions about its network
connection. Beyond that - ie to do systems management as opposed to
network management, you will probably need to add a smarter SNMP agent
to the thing you want to manage. So Netview can ask anything via SNMP -
but there must be an agent on the other end that knows the answer, and
maybe
a mib file to help us people understand the questions and the answers.
Writing your own agents is not trivial. People do it for money.
So ask again, but tell us what operating system you are trying to manage,
and people will give you advice about what agents are available for that
platform. Can Netview manage that agent? Without a doubt.
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit
netview@toddh.net (Todd H.)@tkg.com on 07/05/2001 03:28:29 PM
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Subject: [NV-L] can NV verify process existence from an SNMP process name
table?
I'm kinda new to SNMP and am not overly familiar with the SNMP table
type. Can Netview scan an SNMP process name table to verify that a
given process exists (i.e. is "up") in the table?
Or is this something that requires an external perl script to grok
through the table in a linear search?
TIA for any insight or advice!
Best Regards,
--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/
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