From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 30 15:55:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 956EC37B404 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 15:55:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail7.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 831E743FAF for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 15:55:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johnmills@speakeasy.net) Received: (qmail 6459 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2003 22:55:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) ([216.27.162.100]) (envelope-sender ) by mail7.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 30 Jul 2003 22:55:42 -0000 Received: from localhost (jmills@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h6UN2Hc04112; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 19:02:18 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jmills owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 19:02:17 -0400 (EDT) From: John Mills X-X-Sender: jmills@localhost.localdomain To: "Tkachenko, Artem N" In-Reply-To: <573562C6FDA9564A8EEE66D899BC190B02A32AD4@EMSS01M10.us.lmco.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: SNMP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: John Mills List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 22:55:45 -0000 On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Tkachenko, Artem N wrote: > I am new to SNMP. I was asked to set up SNMP agents and a manager on > some of the computers in the lab. Can someone recommend some SNMP > programs that I can use or a good link on the Internet? I need it for > both FreeBSD and Windows machines. Thank you very much for you time. > Best regards I second the recommendation for net-SNMP. It also provides most of the functions for Microsoft Windows that it does for Unix-type environments. Code generators and related utilities are far less automatic than many commercial products, but the quality and flexibility are high. There is a set of tutorials and you can run many of them against yourself in 'localhost'. 'net-SNMP.org' is careful that their license makes it easy to use the code in commercial or non-commercial products, more BSD-style than GPL-style. Look around the web for handy tools - many are graphical using Tc/Tkl. The RedHat RPM installs a fully functional host-platform agent (net-SNMP or its older version ucd-SNMP) in RH Linux systems that you may wish to play against. A huge number of MIB elements are supported and you can interrogate the machine to spit them out to you. If you would like good quality, moderately priced code generators, MIB browsers, and test agents for Microsoft Windows, look into MG-SOFT (www.mg-soft.com) products. DISCLAIMER - I'm about a year away from this and there may be better things available. John Mills john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu