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Fourth release of CMU-SNMP agent and tools for Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Fri Sep 1 12:07:36 1995
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 01:31:14 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Erik Schoenfelder <schoenfr@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany
Subject: Fourth release of CMU-SNMP agent and tools for Linux
Reply-to: schoenfr@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.networking
Hi!
This is the announcement of the fourth release of the port of the
CMU-SNMP agent and applications to Linux.
Where is it avail ?
The source and binary distribution is named
cmu-snmp2.1.2l4-src.tar.gz
cmu-snmp2.1.2l4-bin.tar.gz.
and avail at
ftp.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (134.169.34.15)
in
/pub/local/linux-cmu-snmp
and at sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/Linux/system/Network/admin.
This release has been tested with Linux v1.3.20 and libc
v5.0.9 (ELF) and may or may not work with older kernels and
libc's.
What's new ?
A handfull of bugs are fixed, the ident-mib (RFC 1414) is
added, the public community string is configurable too,
coldstart- and authen-traps are sent, if configured,
snmpEnableAuthenTraps is setable and the value is saved,
and the API (lib and headers) are now installed per default.
What is SNMP at all ?
SNMP is the Simple Network Management Protocol of the Internet
defined as a standard in RFC 1155 and 1157. The protocol
allows mainly to retrieve and set variables, addressed as
objects in the MIB (Management Information Base). The
wellknown MIB-2 is defined in RFC 1213 and contains variables
related to the TCP/IP protocol. Many additional MIB's and
vendor specific MIB's are defined (and sometimes
implemented...) to monitor and operate equipments like
Unix-Hosts, X-Terminals, Printers, Routers (hello cisco's ;-),
coffee machines, toasters and more. The agent (in this release
the snmpd) answers requests sent by management stations. Such
a station can be a simple cmd-line tool implemented in this
cmu-snmp port (eg. snmpget/snmpwalk), but also powerful
graphical management stations. SNMPv2 is still under
development and the currently used party-model will probably
be replaced by a more convenient SNMPv2 USEC model, as
discussed in the SNMPv2 working group.
Are there other nice tools around ?
There are many around, but let me point to Scotty
http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/ibr/projects/nm/
a Tcl interpreter with TCP/IP extensions. Scotty talks
SNMP v1/v2 and can do nice jobs for you.
Have fun, Erik
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