jjn@cbjjn.att.com (Jeff Nappi) (03/27/91)
I have installed SunNet Manager on my Sparc Station unfortunetly Sun did not provide a SNMP Agent specific to the Cisco routers we have in use. Does any one know where I could get the agent already built for the SunNet Mgr? I have the Cisco Mibs but I am not to really interested in building the agent from scratch. Any help would be appreciated.
stpierre@lobsta.Eng.Sun.COM (Bob "Pete" St.Pierre) (03/27/91)
In article <1991Mar26.185238.17822@cbfsb.att.com> jjn@cbjjn.att.com (Jeff Nappi) writes: > >I have installed SunNet Manager on my Sparc Station unfortunetly >Sun did not provide a SNMP Agent specific to the Cisco routers >we have in use. Does any one know where I could get the agent >already built for the SunNet Mgr? I have the Cisco Mibs but I >am not to really interested in building the agent from scratch. >Any help would be appreciated. Assuming you're running SunNet Manager 1.1: The agent does not need to be rebuilt. The snmp proxy agent reads all the information it needs from a schema file. 1) Using the mib2schema program provided with SunNet Manager, you can translate the Cisco Mib to a SunNet Manager schema file. 2) Add the new schema file to the agents directory on the manager station and any machines that will proxy between the cisco box and the manager station. 3) All you need to do from there is edit the snmp.hosts file to associate the apropriate schema file and read/write community strings with the Cisco's hostname. The format of the snmp.hosts file should be documented in the manuals. There is also a man page for mib2schema. -- Bob (Pete) St.Pierre | "Changes in latitude, changes in attitude, nothing stpierre@Eng.Sun.COM | remains quite the same. Through all of our Sun Microsystems | running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't | laugh, we'd all go insane." - Jimmy Buffett
page@Eng.Sun.COM (Bob Page) (03/27/91)
Jeff Nappi wrote: > Sun did not provide a SNMP Agent specific to the Cisco routers we have I think you meant Sun don't supply MIBs for other vendors. The SunNet Manager SNMP stuff talks to cisco boxes if you have the cisco MIB. > I have the Cisco Mibs but I am not to really interested in building > the agent from scratch. You don't have to; the product's SNMP support is extensible. What you need to do depends on what release you have. In 1.0, look at Application Note 1 that came with your software. If you have 1.1, use the 'mib2schema' program, which makes things much easier. > Any help would be appreciated. I hope that helps. You already have everything you need; you just need to put it in place. If the product's documentation doesn't clarify things, Sun's support line would be a good place to find out more. ..bob -- Bob Page Sun Microsystems, Inc. page@eng.sun.com "The biggest growth industry in UNIX is promoting standards." - Rikki Kirzner, Dataquest. "Standards committees are not the best way to create a standard." -D.Ritchie