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Re: My SNMP troubles solved. Was Re: (ASCEND) Is this a correct strategy to utilise Ascend enterprise SNMP extensions?
On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 09:36:42AM +1000, John Heenan wrote:
> No one replied to my posting concerning a problem about
> using enterprise SNMP extensions. This supports my
> impression that SNMP usage is not widely practiced,
> or understood. Still I soldiered on and am now posting
> what I would have liked to have seen in a response
> (that is a menu type appraoch).
IMHO the lack of an answer was primarily due to the problem you had was not
with the Ascend box but rather a flaw in the SNMP query tools you were
using. It seems that CMU SNMP is rather old and not beeing developed much
further. You already have found UCD which seems to do better in this
sense (UCD is a spinoff of CMU but seems to be alive still, it is AFAIK
also used as the SNMP library for the Python SNMP interface). My favorite
prototyping tool for SNMP is Scotty (a Tcl extension to do SNMP, ICMP and
other stuff). I actually hate Tcl, but Scotty is worth to bother with Tcl
because the prototyping I get with Scotty is outstanding. And if you compile
all the stuff as shared libraries/objects and try to get apps that don't
start up often but run continuously, the performance is actually surprising
well (maybe with Tcl 8 this is even better).
> First I upgraded our MAX operating system from 4.6C
> to 6.0.2. Might as well use the latest and greatest.
This is a must for SNMP anyway. MIBs have evolved extremly from 4.6C to
6.0.2 - you wouldn't see a lot of the stuff in todays MIBs on a 4.6C
box.
> Interesting that the approach drops a hint about the
> cold war origins of core Internet technologies (the
> .dod. part of the OID, referring to US Department of
> Defence).
I used to enter the Internet the days when the Internic was still named
nic.ddn.mil ;->
> Very simple when you how! SNMP, might I say in contrast to your myriad
> abusers, I love you!
You should get yourself Scotty and have a look on the mibtree example
program. Some 100 lines of Tcl/Tk/Scotty - and it allows you to GUI
browse through the MIB tree of whatever MIB you want, querying a box
for the variables, tables or walk down the tree, display the MIB entry
description...
For some other examples of using Scotty in conjunction with Ascend boxes,
have a look at http://www.ibh.de/~beck/stuff/scotty/
Have fun,
Andre.
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