Q. Is there a version for NT or 95?
A. Yes, the beta 3.0.0 works on NT. But if you already have a linux
workstation you would probably be better staying with that (said without
malice).
Q. Can I monitor Netware Servers.
A. Yes, with Novell TCP/IP you get a simple(with 3.12) or slightly more
sophisticated(with 4.11) SNMP service. You certainly can't use it like
rstatd though, I have not heard of anything in the public domain that
does this. (Somebody please correct me if necessary).
Q. Can I monitor NT Servers.
A. Yes, NT has an SNMP service. I dont know what it does yet. (Somebody
please inform us!?)
Q. Can I monitor 3Com Superstack hubs?
A. Yes, You already are, but to understand how to monitor the more
complex settings you need to understand the MIB for this piece of
equipment. If you are still unsure about the concept of communities you
should probably do some reading on basic SNMP concepts as well.
Q. Why can't I set variables.
A. Not sure, see above but also I believe there was a discussion about
this piece of equipment in the mailing list a few months ago about
having to use the 3com software to do this kind of thing. (Somebody
please correct me if this is erroneous information)
Hope some of these answers help
Regards
Mark
> ----------
> From: Stefan Lapenat[SMTP:postmaster.le-gobw@hof.baynet.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 1998 4:38 AM
> To: mark@adacorp.com
> Subject: [tkined] general problems ... 2nd try
>
> hi
>
> this is my second try to get some help ... in the mean time i have
> discovered some new problems ;)
>
> i am using tkined 1.4.9 running on a linux server (linux 1.2.13). is
> there
> a newer version ? maybe another version running under another
> operating
> system like Windows95 or WinNt ??
> we have a large company network with about 150 nodes and some smaller
> networks. it was no problem to discover the smaller ones using
> ip-discover,
> but when i tried to discover the large one it lasted very long (over
> night). but when i start it now i get no result, even when waiting so
> long.
> is there a possibility to see where ip-discover stops or hangs up ?
>
> our main part is a 3com super stack switch, in my opinion it is a very
> big
> step if i could monitor this stack, this would give me a glance into
> our
> network.
> but till now i couldnīt manage more than getting some little graphics
> showing the round trip time and the interface load (snmp monitor) for
> the
> 24 ports.
> the other thing is that i tried to monitor some values except these
> two
> ones already mentioned. but i do not know how to do it. I checked the
> snmp
> and the icmp statistics ... then i tried to monitor the names i got
> there.
> these things worked, but i am not able to get any other information
> out of
> this damned stack.
>
> what are these so-called snmp communities work ? what do i have to
> look at
> ? how do they work and which functions do they have ?
>
> i also tried to change values via snmp-browser ... but even the
> syscontact
> value was not changeable ...
> the error message was: nosuchname 1 {1.3.6.1.2.1.1.4.0 {octet string}
> {mynewtext}}
>
> in this company a lot of different operation systems for the servers
> are
> used: HP-UX, Novell 3.12, Novell 4.11, Win NT
> HP-UX can be monitored via the rstat daemon, but how can i monitor the
> other servers best ?
>
> i have to admit that i feel very helpless dealing with all these
> things ( i
> never had to cope with networkmanagement before) ... but even the
> getting
> started, the faq and some newsgroups-messages have not been a big help
> for
> me ... maybe somebody out there could be ;)
>
> thanx a lot
>
> stefan lapenat
>
>
>
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