Monitor private MIBs
Hello everybody,
I'm a newbie using SMC and I have some doubts which are probably obvious but at first sight I could not find the answer in the manuals.
How can I monitor private MIBs from equipments which are not running any sun managent agent (like a FC switch)?
Where do I load the private MIBs so the SMC translate the OIDs, and most important how do I create an object that lets me poll the snmp agent, in case it is not the sun's agent (not only ICMP/SNMP ping)?
At least I would like to monitor the MIB-II from standard agents running on linux machines, and if it's possible the private MIBs they support.
I used to do all that stuff with Openview, and it was rather easy, now I'm trying to implement the same functions with SMC and there seems to be a dependecy on the the SMC agents to be installed in every monitored equipment, and that's not always possible.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Lander.
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There is only so much that SunMC can do and what you request is not exaclty one of those things.
You might want to look at PrimeAlert EventGateway.
http://www.halcyoninc.com/products/EventGateway/index.php
With some effort you can make sense out of a trap but you can't load a MIB like you can in NNM or Netview.Polling is quick different to having agents. If you are well versed in NNM you would understand that you can do an SNMP get /walk of something important. So if you don't want to spend the money on NNM or Netview, etc, you could install the Net-SNMP binaries and get cron to poll your devices. It would take some effort and you could incorporate the output with ScriptRunner.
http://www.halcyoninc.com/products/ScriptRunner/index.php
Considering the price of a basic licence of NNM or even freebie stuff such as OpenNMS etc, you are probably better off using something like NNM and incorporating SunMC into it. Most companies will fork out the money to stop in house disasters in the future.
If SunMC got into that SNMP manager space, it would probably have to charge so much that it would not be used as much as it is now.
We are a Tivoli shop but I still like to use SunMC in some areas as no one else can manage the system controllers on our large SunFires.. well not yet anyway.
SunMC integration with Solaris 10 is so good, that we run it and Tivoli Monitoring on our systems that have spare CPU grunt.
Stephen
