Re: doubts SNMP
"Dave Shield" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.net-snmp.user |
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On 01/05/07, deciokos <[email protected]> wrote: > I want to develop a system that will use NET-SNMP but I have some doubts: > > 1) How could I know is there is an agent in a network node? a) By reading the documentation for that node, or talking to the administrator of it. b) By trying to query it, and see if you get anything back. > 2) NET-SNMP allows me to remotely install an agent in a node? Depends on the node. If it's a dedicated hardware box (e.g, a switch or router), then you'd probably need to talk to the vendor about management capabilities. It's not something that you could easily add yourself. If it's a general purpose computer, then it should be possible to install the Net-SNMP agent (or some other SNMP agent). Exactly how to do this depends on the operating system that it's running. We provide binaries for some systems - some vendors include Net-SNMP as part of their standard distributions anyway. For other systems, you'd need to build from source. > 3) How can I know the names of the objects to be managed. Is there any > request transaction? See the relevant MIB files, under the 'mibs' directory in the source tree. There would typically be installed to /usr/share/snmp/mibs/ or similar. > 4) What can I do in order to process the results of the commands > (GETSNMP,etc.) by a Java code. NET-SNMP records a file? The easiest way would be to have the Java program generate the SNMP requests itself. There are several Java-based SNMP toolkits available. See http://www.snmplink.org/Tools.html#Java%20SNMP%20Development for a reasonably full list. Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ 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