Re: hello

Cary B. O'Brien (cobrien@access.digex.net)
Sat, 16 Nov 1996 23:22:05 -0500 (EST)

>
> Let me try this again............
>
> Hello to all,
>
> I am new to the List today 11-14-96. Looking to create an web
> user interface on our dial-up/router.
>
> Have many options - about in overload mode, but I'm zooming in on
> writing an application that would do http->snmp.
>
> Don't really want to run a web server on the dial-up/router, would
> like to just send it SNMP packages and get the responses....
>
> Make a pretty front end with html and go
>
> We have a mib (its just not finished) can't release it for a month
> or so. I would like to view it like scotty does to show the marketing
> people something.
>
> Am I really out there?
>
Not at all.

> Is there anyone doing this already?
>
There are several www<-->snmp gateways in existance. AltaVista should
help some. One in austrailia comes to mind but I do not have the
reference.

> I have 2 platforms to choose from. It must be portable (JAVA?) sun
> sparc 5 and petium nt 40... server and workstation...
>

Java may be overkill. There is a httpd written in tcl at the sun tcl/tk
site. Or you could write a cgi script in scotty. (Mib loading would be
a bit slow). Or roll your own httpd there are even some http extentions
in scotty. It's really not that complicated for a low-volume (single threaded)
server. With the tnm extentions and tcl/tclX you can get this sort of thing
running in an amazingly few lines of code.

-- cary
cobrien@access.digex.net