Re: SNMP Commands (was Re: How do I monitor the CPU temperature in an ES40 running OpenVMS 7.3-1?

From: David J. Dachtera (djesys.nospam_at_fsi.net)
Date: 07/08/03 

Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 20:08:49 -0500

dooley wrote:
>
> "David J. Dachtera" <djesys.nospam@fsi.net> wrote in message news:<3F0878CE.889AB110@fsi.net>...
> > Verne wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >[snip]
> > > >
> > >
> > > Don't know if this would help, but once I tried some SNMP stuff, and
> > > from the on-line help (HELP MULTI SHOW /SNMP) and the Info-Multinet
> > > mailing list archives at www.process.com, I came up with (perhaps a
> > > trivial example):
> > >
> > > mul show /snmp=11.22.33.44/mib=mib-2.43.10.2.1.4.1.1
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > mul show /snmp=11.22.33.44/mib=enterprises.11.2.3.9.4.2.2.10.2.1.4.1.1
> > >
> > > to see the lifetime page counter on a printer... at least this works
> > > on newer HP JetDirect-attached printers, such as the LJ5, LJ4000 and
> > > the LJ2100 (would not work on a III or IV).
> > >
> > > Sorry, but I forget where I got the MIB variable 'id' from :-(
> >
> > Yeah - discovered those ages ago.
> >
> > $ MULT SHOW/CONN/SNMP=x.x.x.x/MIB_VAR/OUT=filespec
> >
> > ...will list out all the MIB varaibles on the target node and their
> > current values.
> >
> > O.k. Let me try this another way:
> >
> > I'm looking for a way - from a VMS system running Multinet - to send a
> > SNMP trap to a "foreign" system monitoring center (at work, they're
> > trying to use Cisco's CIC).
> >
> > Does *THAT* help?
> >
> > I *DON'T* want to use the VMS system examine other systems, I want the
> > VMS system to be able to alert a "foreign" system when some bit of
> > system administrivia goes awry (disk fills up, shadow-set member gets
> > dropped, backup job fails, etc.).
> >
> > Does *THAT* help?
> Your "foreign" system admin should be able to tell you -
> the ip address of the system that will receive the trap
> the community name to use
> the port to use (162?)
> the "enterprise" (compaq is 1.3.6.1.4.1.232.)
> the oid to use within 232 to indicate disk full or whatever
> use this link to identify "enterprises"
> http://www.alvestrand.no/objectid/1.3.6.1.4.1.html
> Phil

...and the command to do that is ___________________.
(Fill in the blank.)

(Actually, wasn't there a musical group: "Phil 'n' the The Blanks"?) 

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