Feiyi> I am a new comer of scotty & tkined community, here is a
Feiyi> general question related to what scotty can do. The question
Feiyi> has been bothering me for a long time, Your help and any idea
Feiyi> are highly appreciated.
Feiyi> we want to retrieve OSPF mib information from "Gated" program
Feiyi> we are running and display it on Management Station.( I think
Feiyi> Gated is the only free available program supporting OSPF, am I
Feiyi> right?) Sure scotty can implement site specific network
Feiyi> management, but can it communicate with Gated by SMUX
Feiyi> interface?? A picture illustrate the question like the
Feiyi> following:
Feiyi> +----------------+ +--------------------+
Feiyi> | Managed Node | | Management Station |
Feiyi> | Running Gated |--------+ | |
Feiyi> |----------------+ospf mib| | Network Appication |
Feiyi> | SMUX interface |--------+ +--------+-----------+
Feiyi> +-------+--------+ |
Feiyi> | |
Feiyi> | |
Feiyi> | |
Feiyi> +-----------------------------------+
Feiyi> --------------->ospf mib information
Feiyi> Here the Network Appication should be implemented by using
Feiyi> Scotty. The problem is can scotty do such a job? How can it be
Feiyi> done?
SMUX allows to extend an SNMP agent with additional MIB modules at
runtime. Your picture looks a bit strange since the protocol between
the Management Application should be SNMP and not SMUX. I would use a
picture like this (I am only drawing the left agent side):
+-----------------------------+
| GATED running on a managed |
+--------------+ node +
| OSPF MIB | |
+--------------+ |
| SMUX engine | |
+--------------+--------------+
|
+--------------+
| SMUX engine |
+--------------+
| SNMP engine |
+--------------+
|
+------------------------------------------
--------------->ospf mib information
Of course, you can build an application using scotty to query the OSPF
MIB. How this is done depends on the application you are designing.
This is something you have to find out yourself.
Juergen
-- Juergen Schoenwaelder schoenw@cs.utwente.nl http://www.cs.utwente.nl/~schoenw Computer Science Department, University of Twente, (Fax: +31-53-489-3247) P.O. Box 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands. (Tel. +31-53-489-3678)