From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 17 13:10:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wormhole.bluestar.net (wormhole.bluestar.net [208.53.1.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD85837B4C5 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:10:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from planetwe.com (admin.planetwe.com [64.182.69.146]) by wormhole.bluestar.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id eAHLAOQ05318; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:10:24 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3A159EC0.60206@planetwe.com> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:10:24 -0600 From: Drew Sanford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386; en-GB; m18) Gecko/20001107 Netscape6/6.0 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe.Warner@smed.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SNMP on FreeBSD References: <8525699A.00738B75.00@Deimos.smed.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joe I would encourage you to look at /usr/ports/net/ucd-snmp for snmp software. I would think that with a little research and /usr/ports/net/mrtg you could probably monitor just about aspect of anything under the sun that speaks snmp. Its my understanding that with a little perl, mrtg will monitor just about anything, even if it doesn't speak snmp. Joe.Warner@smed.com wrote: > > Hi, > > In an effort to avoid costs and make additional use of > my PC running FreeBSD 3.4 at work, my manager would > like me to install some kind of Network Management > software so that we can monitor a big Exide Powerware > UPS in our data center. > > It's my understanding that the first step is to have SNMP > running on my FreeBSD system. Is there a port or > package I could load to get this going? Is it even possible > to get SNMP running on 3.4? > > As for the Network Management software, I went to: > > http://www.powerware.com/products/Software/Onlinet/unixc41.asp > > ...and they offer several versions of their Onlinet software for > UNIX systems but no mention of *BSD. Could I download > the one for Linux 2.0 and run it under Linux emulation? > > I like to be able to get this to work on my FreeBSD system, rather > than having to purchase third party software to get to run on > WIN NT. > > Thanks > > Joe > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Drew Sanford Systems Administrator Planetwe.com Email: drew@planetwe.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message