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I'm currently looking into if it would be possible to use OpenNMS as a base for a network wide element monitoring system. I've been playing with it for a few days and the basic monitoring and SNMP stats gathering works fine. However to truly monitor a network of our elements will require a little deeper configuration. Our network consists of basestations which serve a number of clients. These clients do not appear directly on the management network although they all have SNMP functionality in them. The basestation provides a proxy service for each client on a spare port (which you discover by enumerating the basestations MIB) as well as listing the interface in it's standard ietf interfaces list. Looking around the documentation I think I could modify snmp-config.xml with appropriate port and proxy-host tweaking although it would be nice to see some example configs that did it. Would I be right thinking I would need a stanza like: <definition port=1234 proxy-host=123.123.123.123> <specific>111.111.111.111</specific> </definition> for each of the proxied connections I want to monitor? Which leads me to the next question about approach. We already have tools that enumerate the topology of our networks and understand the relationship between basesations and their clients. However OpenNMS does a good job of detecting basesations, including any new ones that appear on the network, but obviously not the clients as it doesn't know how to reach them. How easy would it be to teach OpenNMS how to discover the clients (and use the proxy)? Or would it be easier to generate a static configuration for OpenNMS from our tools and regenerate it if we see another basestation? Or is there a middle approach where OpenNMS detects a device of type X it can call an external program to generate further node configuration data for it's clients? Regards, -- Alex Bennee Software Engineer, Cambridge Broadband ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cambridge Broadband Networks Limited Registered in England and Wales under company number: 03879840 Registered office: Selwyn House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road, Cambridge CB4 0WZ, UK. VAT number: GB 741 0186 64 This email and any attachments are private and confidential. If you believe you have received this email in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage mechanism. Cambridge Broadband Networks Limited cannot accept liability for any statements made which are clearly the individual sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of Cambridge Broadband Networks Limited. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Please read the OpenNMS Mailing List FAQ: http://www.opennms.org/index.php/Mailing_List_FAQ opennms-devel mailing list To *unsubscribe* or change your subscription options, see the bottom of this page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opennms-devel
