Devmon : a bbxsnmp.pl & routermon replacement

For me, installing SNMP_Session was as easy as:

myhost% wget http://www.switch.ch/misc/leinen/snmp/perl/dist/SNMP_Session-1.08.tar.gz
myhost% tar zxf SNMP_Session-1.08.tar.gz
myhost% cd SNMP_Session-1.08/
myhost% perl Makefile.PL
myhost% make install

Also, I hate to be a nag, but please try to refrain from sending support
questions to the Hobbit mailing list.  Knowing my code, I'm sure that there
are going to be enough of them that people who aren't interested in Devmon
will start to get annoyed at the traffic levels :)

You can subscribe to the Devmon mailing list here:

-Eric


-----Original Message-----
From: Aiello, Steve (GE, Corporate, consultant) [mailto:user-49fae449733a@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thu 2/23/2006 4:45 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Devmon : a bbxsnmp.pl & routermon replacement
 Trying to play with it too, I am sure I can figure out where to pop
SNMP_Session to get things to work.  Just anyone know the 'proper',
method ?

Does this deal with devices sending SNMO traps to, or just polling ?

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Vande More [mailto:user-f3c4c62d9d50@xymon.invalid] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 4:38 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Devmon : a bbxsnmp.pl & routermon replacement


Amazing. I was just ruminating this morning about the sad shape of bb-xsnmp and how it wasn't integrated very well, didn't thread, and ill-maintaned. I especially like the idea of clusting it, though I'm not prepared to do that just yet. I do however, have tens of thousands of devices to monitor, so the potential exists for me to use it.

Anyway, I'm diving into it as we speak, unfortunately, you don't have templates for any of my devices (Foundry serverirons, cisco 7609s, Ironport C600s, etc) so it's gonna take some work:)

Thanks for this promising add-on.

-Dan

p.s. It didn't make the /var/run/devmon/ dir by default.

On 2/23/06, Schwimmer, Eric E *HS <user-1e1008b069d5@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Hi everybody,

I've been working on a little project for the past 6 months or so, one > that is designed to replace bbxsnmp.pl, routermon, and other similar > SNMP data collectors for the Hobbit and BigBrother monitoring systems.

In my (extremely biased) opinion, it is one of the better SNMP data > collectors out there.

Just a few key highlights:

 . Fast: Uses psuedo non-blocking SNMP queries (basically forked snmp)

 . Scalable: If you want to poll many remote devices very
   quickly, you can configure Devmon to work in a clustered
   configuration across multiple machines.

 . Easily managed: After the initial configuration, all host management
   is done by editing your display server's bb-hosts file.

 . Very customizable:  Via the Devmon template system, a savvy sysadmin
   can use Devmon to monitor virtually any type of SNMP capable > device.

The project went up on SourceForge as of about 30 minutes ago; it's > web page is at:
  http://devmon.sf.net

You can download it form there, leave a message in the forums, join > the mailing list, etc.  I'm hoping that this will be the only Devmon > message that goes out to the Hobbit list;  if you have any questions > or comments for me, please please please either send them to me > personally, or, preferably, join the Devmon mailing list and post your > questions there.

And last, but not least, I'd like to thank Henrik once again for his > excellent work on Hobbit, as Devmon wouldn't be very useful without > it!
:)

-Eric Schwimmer
Network Engineer
UVA HSCS Network Engineering