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| 741.1 | Not proprietary, but not general purpose | SLINK::HOOD | I'd rather be surfing | Fri Feb 18 1994 10:21 | 18 |
| HUBwatch (any platform, any version) is neither proprietary nor general
purpose. We don't use any features or functions of the hub or any of
the hub modules that aren't published either in any of the standards MIBs
or in Digital's published MIB extensions.
But, we are assuming that we know what kind of modules we're dealing with.
We don't yet have code that looks at the sysObjectId of a device and says
"Hey, this looks like it is something like a DECserver 900TM. I'll use
the DS900TM/DS90M/DS90TL code and try to manage this." (The next versions
of HUBwatch (Windows 2.0, OpenVMS & OSF/1 3.0) will do this with a Cisco
IGS... It will use the same management as the DECbrouter 90's.)
We're trying to get better at this, but it involves diverting people from
supporting DEChub products and other needed features.
Tom Hood
HUBwatch
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| 741.2 | Don't divert effort....8*) | WOTVAX::STUS::Stuart Hatto | ACB actually means A Cold Beer | Fri Feb 18 1994 12:20 | 14 |
| Thanks for that..
One of the reasons I ask is that there is a company in the
UK who market an SNMP Hub management tool which purports
to support full front panel views of many vendors hubs.
I just wondered what kind of SNMP management system I would
be better off with to manage HUB90's, CHIPCOM and DS300's
Is there a general SNMP management system available which
when fed a vendor MIB can manage the device even if it
can't display a nice picture of it?
Stuart
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| 741.3 | | QUIVER::SLAWRENCE | | Fri Feb 18 1994 12:47 | 9 |
| There are a number of tools out there that can read a MIB and give the
user browsing and even setting functions, but when you get beyond the
simple port on/off kind of operations it takes more than that to manage
the device. Something, either the tool or the user, needs to
understand the relationships between objects. Backplane lan hopping,
for example, requires sets to a number of different tables.
We attempted to document these relationships in the MIBs themselves,
but that doesn't mean that we succeeded.
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| 741.4 | This will do the trick | LEVERS::SWEET | | Sun Feb 20 1994 18:40 | 6 |
| We will be putting HUBwatch for Windows on HP PC OpenView. Other
vendors have their HUB apps on that platform also as well as it
provides general purpose SNMP and MIB browsing. This combo will
help you solve your problem. Expect it by the end of the FY.
Bruce
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| 741.5 | Can HUBwatch browse a MIB-II agent ?? | MSDOA::REED | John Reed @CBO, DTN:367-6463, KB4FFE, SouthEast | Tue Apr 26 1994 09:32 | 32 |
| Hello;
in reply .3, you state:
>There are a number of tools out there that can read a MIB and give the
>user browsing and even setting functions, but when you get beyond the
>simple port on/off kind of operations it takes more than that to manage
>the device.
Could you mention a few PC-based tools (hopefully available on the
EasyNet) that can dump MIB-II variables of any MIB-II agent? I would
like to use the stacks that came with HUBwatch, so I don't have to load
more than just this code.
Is there any way to bring up HUBwatch (v2.0) on my customer site,
without connecting to a DEChub? For instance, I just want to look at
the SNMP MIB-II interface variables of a specific address, in TEXT
mode. I don't wish to use a GUI, or the DEC pictures of the hub. I
just want to use the guts of the tool, to troubleshoot the network.
This would also be helpful, when working with a DECagent, to see if my
agent is responding with the proper ascii text, before I bring up
HUBwatch.
Is there a special DEbug mode or something I can use, to just bring up
the SNMP manager part of Hubwatch ??
thanks,
JR
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| 741.6 | No browsing from HubWatch. | QUIVER::GALLAGHER | | Tue Apr 26 1994 10:39 | 17 |
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HubWatch wasn't designed to be a general purpose MIB browser. It won't
do what you'd like it to do.
UNIX-based SNMP free-ware is available, but I don't know of any pc-based
SNMP-manager freeware. However, there are, as Scott mentions, several
cheap SNMP browser products available. We've used FTP Software's product
in our testing. It cost about $400-500 and is pretty impressive for the
price. I've also heard good things about Castle Rock Computing's product
($500). NetManage also has a product. Castle Rock and NetManage ads can
be found in the back of any issue of Network World or Communications Week.
FTP comes with its own stack. Castle Rock advertise "supports any TCP/IP".
These products all offer more than what you're asking for - which is why
they're $400-500. They all have MIB compilers and offer graphical browsing.
-Shawn
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