tom@wcc.oz (Tom Evans) (12/19/90)
What SNMP tools are being used out there to help administer AppleTalk internets, particularly those connected to IP networks. What hosts do these tools run on - Unix, Mac, VAX(?), and what level of information do they support/display? ======================== Tom Evans tom@wcc.oz.au ** ADD ".au" MANUALLY (don't trust "reply") ** Webster Computer Corp P/L, 1270 Ferntree Gully Rd Scoresby, Melbourne 3179 Victoria, Australia 61-3-764-1100 FAX ...764-1179
tjh+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Tom Holodnik) (12/20/90)
> Excerpts from AppleTalk: 19-Dec-90 SNMP Experience in AppleTal.. Tom > Evans@apple.com (460) > What SNMP tools are being used out there to help administer AppleTalk > internets, particularly those connected to IP networks. Last summer, I wrote a quick and hairy SNMP monitor for our population of FastPaths, based on Steve Waldbusser's SNMP library, running on a UNIX host. While it monitors about 50 variables, it doesn't check tables for consistency (something I'd like to do someday soon). It's still in a pretty rough state (I'm not sure how well it would pass through lint), but it works enough to indicate several things. The most frequently incremented counter is the counter for ALAP collisions - those instances where the gateway sends an RTS packet, but gets no CTS in return (presumably, it collided with someone else's transmission). The other most significant counter indicates severe faults- the alapNoData counter indicates that the gateway received an RTS, sent a CTS, but got no data from the user's machine. Typically, this means that some patch panel somewhere is flakey, or that there's a problem with one of the wiring concentrators. If you'd like more details, let me know. It's still very much a work in progress, but it has shown some things I thought were interesting. -tom
kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) (12/21/90)
We have a product that we have announced and are going to ship 1Q91 called WatchTower that is an SNMP management station. For better information I will send you a brochure (if you don't already have one). Our products support SNMP (not fully with MacTCP as you can not get at all of the information yet.). Wollongong supports SNMP management station under A/UX, and has a SNMP init that works with MacTCP (sort of, as stated above there is only so much information you can get with MacTCP currently). Umm, I am sure there are others, but these are the ones that I know of off hand. -- Kurt Baumann InterCon Systems Corporation 703.709.9890 Creators of fine TCP/IP products 703.709.9896 FAX for the Macintosh.