Re: [tkined] SNMP monitoring of Netscape apps on NT

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de)
Mon, 31 May 1999 13:49:06 +0200

>>>>> Jean-Pierre Morant writes:

Jean-Pierre> I'm tryin to monitor a set of Netscape apps (news mail
Jean-Pierre> directory ...) running on top of an NT4 box.

Jean-Pierre> But if I try to monitor a variable, scotty silently
Jean-Pierre> returns. With the help of a net analyzer I've noticed
Jean-Pierre> that - scotty asks for a variable's value (example : Mail
Jean-Pierre> Server, tell me the space taken by mails) - the Netscape
Jean-Pierre> on NT app responds correctly - Scotty asks for sysUpTime
Jean-Pierre> - NT's SNMP agent responds : No such name sysUpTime...

It is vital to query sysUpTime.0 in order to use counters. You have to
check your agent configuration or you have to complain to the vendor
if it turns out that it is not a configuration problem.

Juergen

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