Peter: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Brian Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If someone wanted to make a really great set of system tools for >> Solaris, then why not base it on something like the old Sun >> Management Center and use SNMP. > > SunMC? Which version?
To be honest, I'm not sure. I worked on the Sun Management Center project from 1999-2001. Version 3.0 was the last version I worked with, but I haven't really kept up with the state-of-the-art much since then. It wouldn't surprise me if there are other, better tools to also consider. >> Then, you can start supporting >> the sorts of hardware monitoring and reporting that SNMP provides >> and extend it. Further SNMP is designed to work over the network > > I actually find snmp rather limited; I'm planning on having a system where > all telemetry (kstats and the whole kitchen sink) is remotely accessible. SNMP can be extended, of course, which is how Sun Management Center provided a great deal of functionality that isn't normally supported with vanilla SNMP. I think the advantage of SNMP is that a lot of devices already support SNMP, so you can get a lot of remote system information via the protocol for free. > For monitoring like that, would you want SunMC or Zabbix/Nagios/whatever? I am not familiar with Zabbix or Nagios, so I can't really say. Perhaps someone more familiar could chime in. I was just trying to suggest that Sun has already invested a lot of energy in projects like Sun Management Center, and that perhaps making these sorts of projects more open might bring new life to more sophisticated remote network admin/monitoring on Solaris. Brian _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
