Re: [hobbit] TS - Hobbit ==> SNMP

[Buchan Milne <bgmilne (at) staff.telkomsa.net>]

On Thursday, 27 May 2010 22:13:36 d.tom.schmitt (at) l-3com.com wrote:
> I have installed Hobbit on a Dell R-610 on CentOS 5.4.
> 
> I have installed Net:SNMP so that I can query a MIB.
> 
> 
> 
> I am looking for a good setup guide/HOW-TO to integrate a test to
> controlling an ICON on a device.

What do you mean by "ICON" ?


> I must be searching in the archive for the wrong string.
> 
> 
> 
> I want to test a MIB or MIBs and then trigger a change in the ICON red,
> yellow, green
> 
>     e.g. temperature of a device, or reserve power in a UPS

Can you be more specific about the "device" ?

E.g, there are templates for a number of UPS models shipped with devmon.


> I am also looking for a GOOD J HOW-TO for setting up DEVMON on the Xymon
> server.

What distro?

If Mandriva or RHEL/CentOS, there are packages, quick installation is 
documented here:

https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/devmon/index.php?title=InstallRHELorCentOS

> It seems that it can read the bb-hosts file to find the devices to
> monitor.
> 
> But then again, I read that you have to edit a configuration file for
> the device and the test to run.

At present, devmon doesn't utilise the information in the MIB files, instead it 
uses templates. A number of templates are shipped in the devmon templates 
release.

> I could not find a good testing info source of the options that are
> available.

?
 
> If you use the config file does it then only test the devices in the
> configs file vs. the bb-hosts file?

After adding a device to bb-hosts, you need to run devmon --readbbhosts (or 
'service devmon readbbhosts) to get devmon to poll the device, trying to 
identify it from it's sysDescr. If it matches it to a template, it stores the 
device, model, options etc. in an internal file (which you should not modify, 
but you can view partially with 'strings').

Have you read the devmon documentation?

Regards,
Buchan