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SNMP Managers for Linux?

Posted by Cliff on from the does-this-exist dept.

jjohn asks: "Just did a search on Slashdot and found no articles about SNMP. Is SNMP dead? If not, is there a GUI SNMP manager for Linux through which I can monitor the health of various network devices? What are folks using to automate network monitoring besides ping?"

9 comments

  1. Might find some things.. by Mephistopholies · · Score: 2

    here. Whenever I need to check devices I usually do it via the command line w/ the UCD SNMP package. and i automate the checking of devices via shell scripts and just have it page me if things go wrong..

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    1. Re:Might find some things.. by erth64net · · Score: 1

      Try MRTG, a nice tool for obtaining SNMP info. I use it for reporting utilization on my routers, others use it for modem usage, processor utilization, memory usage, uptime, basicly whatever you can get a MIB on. Also, freshmeat.net returns about 17 hits on a search for "SNMP". Google returns about 6206 hits on a search for SNMP from their www.google.com/linux page.
      Some of it looks very usefull, of-course I have yet to do a search on Google that does not return good results.

  2. UCD not CMU by euroderf · · Score: 1
    Yes, UCD seems to be staying on top of the evolving spec better than CMU is. And I see that RedHat now supplies UCD instead of CMU.

    Here's some miscellaneous URLS's:
    http://linas.org/linux/NMS.html
    http://netman.cit.buffalo.edu/Archives.html
    http://gxsnmp.scram.de/
    http://www.cforc.com/cwk/net-manage.cgi
    http://wwwsnmp.cs.utwente.nl/software/utwente.html
    http://netman.cit.buffalo.edu/Papers.html

  3. Linux SNMP Site by digitalhermit · · Score: 1

    Try the following site
    http://www.switch.ch/misc/leinen/fasl/nm/ Unicenter also has a Linux port, don't know the status though.

    1. Re:Linux SNMP Site by sgml4kids · · Score: 1

      Also PHP has an SNMP (UCD I think) API
      for performing network management and
      monitoring from a web server.

      BTW, in response to your questions:
      Is SNMP dead? We can only wish...
      Are there no graphical SNMP managers out there? No good ones for Linux... there's a tk version off UCD's webpage but that doesn't count.

  4. Scotty perhaps? by cgthayer · · Score: 1
    Many moons ago I used scotty, when I was a sysadmin for the computer science dept. at columbia u. (about 300 unix hosts, with a bunch of routers.)

    It's a tcl/tk-kind-of-thing that has several useful tools for watching SNMP, and other sorts of network monitoring (ICMP). It had the ability to create some pretty reasonable network maps and do dynamic discovery (based on watching routing tables.)

    • http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~schoenw/scotty/
    • http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/scotty/

    PS. For SNMP there are also perl modules that are helpful for writing monitoring scripts.

    --
    /charles
  5. mon by embobo · · Score: 1

    Mon (from Jim Trocki at Transmeta) can do snmp and other types of monitoring. The architecture is simple and felxible. The configuration is getting a bit kludge-like though.

    Do not use the cmu snmp package. It isn't being developed anymore and it sucks. ucd snmp is much still being maintained and is much easier to use when setting up process and filesystem snmp monitoring.

  6. GXSNMP by mightyfoo · · Score: 1

    Check out http://www.gxsnmp.org

    Happy turkey day.

    1. Re:GXSNMP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      not for the turkey.......