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Subject: Re: snmpd strangeness
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On Wednesday 19 November 2008 20:37:05 John Almberg wrote:
> >> This machine has an Intel motherboard and a hardware raid controller.
> >> From what I can tell, there is some Intel software installed on the
> >> machine that makes hardware faults visible to snmp.
> >
> > That would require Net-SNMP to be linked to that software (or library)
> > directly.  Two things can't just "magically talk" to one another.  :-)
>
> As I said, I really have no idea.
>
> Now that I'm reading more deeply in the notes... the monitoring was
> supposed to be with IPMI. No idea what that is, either, but I thought
> I'd toss it into the mix.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.