RE: [hobbit] Devmon : a bbxsnmp.pl & routermon replacement

["Aiello, Steve \(GE, Corporate, consultant\)" <steve.aiello (at) ge.com>]

Trying to play with it too, I am sure I can figure out where to pop
SNMP_Session to get things to work.  Just anyone know the 'proper',
method ?

Does this deal with devices sending SNMO traps to, or just polling ?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Vande More [mailto:bigdan (at) gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 4:38 PM
> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Devmon : a bbxsnmp.pl & routermon replacement
> 
> 
> Amazing. I was just ruminating this morning about the sad 
> shape of bb-xsnmp and how it wasn't integrated very well, 
> didn't thread, and ill-maintaned. I especially like the idea 
> of clusting it, though I'm not prepared to do that just yet. 
> I do however, have tens of thousands of devices to monitor, 
> so the potential exists for me to use it.
> 
> Anyway, I'm diving into it as we speak, unfortunately, you 
> don't have templates for any of my devices (Foundry 
> serverirons, cisco 7609s, Ironport C600s, etc) so it's gonna 
> take some work:)
> 
> Thanks for this promising add-on.
> 
> -Dan
> 
> p.s. It didn't make the /var/run/devmon/ dir by default.
> 
> On 2/23/06, Schwimmer, Eric E *HS 
> <EES2Y (at) hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I've been working on a little project for the past 6 months 
> or so, one 
> > that is designed to replace bbxsnmp.pl, routermon, and 
> other similar 
> > SNMP data collectors for the Hobbit and BigBrother 
> monitoring systems.
> >
> > In my (extremely biased) opinion, it is one of the better SNMP data 
> > collectors out there.
> >
> > Just a few key highlights:
> >
> >  . Fast: Uses psuedo non-blocking SNMP queries (basically 
> forked snmp)
> >
> >  . Scalable: If you want to poll many remote devices very
> >    quickly, you can configure Devmon to work in a clustered
> >    configuration across multiple machines.
> >
> >  . Easily managed: After the initial configuration, all 
> host management
> >    is done by editing your display server's bb-hosts file.
> >
> >  . Very customizable:  Via the Devmon template system, a 
> savvy sysadmin
> >    can use Devmon to monitor virtually any type of SNMP capable 
> > device.
> >
> > The project went up on SourceForge as of about 30 minutes ago; it's 
> > web page is at:
> >   http://devmon.sf.net
> >
> > You can download it form there, leave a message in the forums, join 
> > the mailing list, etc.  I'm hoping that this will be the 
> only Devmon 
> > message that goes out to the Hobbit list;  if you have any 
> questions 
> > or comments for me, please please please either send them to me 
> > personally, or, preferably, join the Devmon mailing list 
> and post your 
> > questions there.
> >
> > And last, but not least, I'd like to thank Henrik once 
> again for his 
> > excellent work on Hobbit, as Devmon wouldn't be very useful without 
> > it!
> > :)
> >
> > -Eric Schwimmer
> > Network Engineer
> > UVA HSCS Network Engineering
> >
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