On Monday 20 August 2001 01:30 pm, Peter HOLZLEITNER wrote:
> I say it can't be beat for querying status parameters (hint: stateless
> ...)
> You don't have to allow any writing whatsoever ... the security for this
> really sucks (in SNMPv1 that is).
I'm 100% with Peter on this one. Peter's package is excellent, I also wrote a
similar (currently unpublished) monitor script for mon and leveraged it with
great success. Not to mention all the cool stuff you can do with Cricket and
SNMP.
And in my experience most of the people who talk trash on SNMP have never
deployed or used it, much like the holy rollers who despise rock/rap/whatever
music without ever listening to it :)
CPU temperature monitoring is tricky though because of the widely varying
ways it is done in different hardware. Every single manufacturer of hardware
has a different method of generating this info and presenting it to the user,
some give it to you free on the system (e.g. Solaris with certain Sun HW),
some require an add-on packages (Compaq?) and some just don't do it at all
(most hardware is in this category).
You might have better success rigging up an environmental test in your server
room to detect overall temperature, and trust that your rack layout is not
going to create hot spots in individual machines.
andrew
