Anyone doing VMS?

10 messages in this thread

list Jeff Newman · Thu, 8 Jun 2006 11:24:17 -0500 ·

All,

Just curious if anyone out there was monitoring VMS systems with hobbit,
and if so, what client you were using, and if you had to do any modifications
to get it to work.

The best "feature rich" client I have been able to find is "bb_ovms"
It monitors CPU, DISK, PROCS (up down). Most of the others just monitor
CPU and DISK. Both of these clients seem to lack most of the functionality
that both BB and Hobbit can provide, which is why I was wondering
if there was a better client out there that i was missing.

Thanks,
Jeff

list David Gore · Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:09:15 +0000 ·

▸ quoted from Jeff Newman

Jeff Newman wrote:

All,

Just curious if anyone out there was monitoring VMS systems with hobbit,
and if so, what client you were using, and if you had to do any modifications
to get it to work.

The best "feature rich" client I have been able to find is "bb_ovms"
It monitors CPU, DISK, PROCS (up down). Most of the others just monitor
CPU and DISK. Both of these clients seem to lack most of the functionality
that both BB and Hobbit can provide, which is why I was wondering
if there was a better client out there that i was missing.

Thanks,
Jeff

We are.  We do not have access to an OpenVMS compiler, assuming it (hobbit client) would compile, so we are using our old BB client.  I am not the one who downloaded it, but we have a tied to a lot of custom scripts.

~David

list Juan Guzman · Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:38:17 -0400 ·

Has anybody configured hobbit to send traps to a monitopring sofware, e.g. 
tivoli?  I'm looking for hobbit to send a trap when something turns yellow 
or red.

thanks

list Henrik Størner · Thu, 8 Jun 2006 22:18:12 +0200 ·

▸ quoted from Juan Guzman

On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 03:38:17PM -0400, Juan Guzman wrote:

Has anybody configured hobbit to send traps to a monitopring sofware, e.g. tivoli?  I'm looking for hobbit to send a trap when something turns yellow or red.

Using the "SCRIPT" mechanism in hobbit-alerts.cfg lets you run a command
to notify about an alert. It should be fairly simple to write a script
that sends an SNMP trap from this.


Regards,
Henrik

list Jeff Newman · Thu, 8 Jun 2006 15:34:50 -0500 ·

Are you just using the built-in NCV hobbit module, or are you doing server-side?

-Jeff

▸ quoted from David Gore


On 6/8/06, David Gore <user-3e5761c68b56@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Jeff Newman wrote:

All,

Just curious if anyone out there was monitoring VMS systems with hobbit,
and if so, what client you were using, and if you had to do any
modifications
to get it to work.

The best "feature rich" client I have been able to find is "bb_ovms"
It monitors CPU, DISK, PROCS (up down). Most of the others just monitor
CPU and DISK. Both of these clients seem to lack most of the
functionality
that both BB and Hobbit can provide, which is why I was wondering
if there was a better client out there that i was missing.

Thanks,
Jeff

We are.  We do not have access to an OpenVMS compiler, assuming it
(hobbit client) would compile, so we are using our old BB client.  I am
not the one who downloaded it, but we have a tied to a lot of custom
scripts.

~David

list Juan Guzman · Fri, 09 Jun 2006 09:30:04 -0400 ·

I agree, but I don't know the snmp trap format.  Can somebody point me in the right direction of what a trap consists of?

thanks

▸ quoted from Henrik Størner

From: user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid (Henrik Stoerner)
Reply-To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] sending snmp traps
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 22:18:12 +0200

On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 03:38:17PM -0400, Juan Guzman wrote:

Has anybody configured hobbit to send traps to a monitopring sofware, e.g.
tivoli?  I'm looking for hobbit to send a trap when something turns yellow
or red.

Using the "SCRIPT" mechanism in hobbit-alerts.cfg lets you run a command
to notify about an alert. It should be fairly simple to write a script
that sends an SNMP trap from this.


Regards,
Henrik

list Greg L Hubbard · Fri, 9 Jun 2006 09:23:11 -0500 ·

Juan, can your software monitor syslog?  It would probably be much
easier to use logger to send a message to your monitoring console than
it will be to define your own traps.  SNMP trap definition requires some
knowledge of MIB's and OIDs and varbinds and PDU's and such.  Syslog is
just text processing.

GLH

▸ quoted from Juan Guzman

-----Original Message-----
From: Juan Guzman [mailto:user-9ad032fbc45a@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 8:30 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] sending snmp traps

I agree, but I don't know the snmp trap format.  Can somebody point me
in the right direction of what a trap consists of?

thanks

From: user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid (Henrik Stoerner)
Reply-To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] sending snmp traps
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 22:18:12 +0200

On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 03:38:17PM -0400, Juan Guzman wrote:

Has anybody configured hobbit to send traps to a monitopring 
sofware,
e.g.
tivoli?  I'm looking for hobbit to send a trap when something turns
yellow
or red.

Using the "SCRIPT" mechanism in hobbit-alerts.cfg lets you run a 
command to notify about an alert. It should be fairly simple to write a

script that sends an SNMP trap from this.


Regards,
Henrik

list Juan Guzman · Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:32:32 -0400 ·

I want hobbit to forward all alerts as snmp traps, but don't know much (if 
anything) about snmp, other than how to do some queries.  I would get my 
hands dirty with perl, but I don't know enough about snmp.

▸ quoted from Greg L Hubbard

From: "Hubbard, Greg L" <user-d970b5e56ec9@xymon.invalid>
Reply-To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
To: <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
Subject: RE: [hobbit] sending snmp traps
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 09:23:11 -0500

Juan, can your software monitor syslog?  It would probably be much
easier to use logger to send a message to your monitoring console than
it will be to define your own traps.  SNMP trap definition requires some
knowledge of MIB's and OIDs and varbinds and PDU's and such.  Syslog is
just text processing.

GLH

-----Original Message-----
From: Juan Guzman [mailto:user-9ad032fbc45a@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 8:30 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] sending snmp traps

I agree, but I don't know the snmp trap format.  Can somebody point me
in the right direction of what a trap consists of?

thanks

From: user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid (Henrik Stoerner)
Reply-To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] sending snmp traps
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 22:18:12 +0200

On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 03:38:17PM -0400, Juan Guzman wrote:

Has anybody configured hobbit to send traps to a monitopring
sofware,
e.g.
tivoli?  I'm looking for hobbit to send a trap when something turns
yellow
or red.

Using the "SCRIPT" mechanism in hobbit-alerts.cfg lets you run a
command to notify about an alert. It should be fairly simple to write a

script that sends an SNMP trap from this.


Regards,
Henrik

list Greg L Hubbard · Fri, 9 Jun 2006 09:55:18 -0500 ·

Then I suggest some quality time with Google.  Net-SNMP has a trap
sending program, I believe, that reduces the work.  You might also check
CPAN to see if someone hasn't written a trap sending module that works
entirely within Perl and perhaps a library.  I know MRTG uses some Perl
code that doesn't appear to depend on anything else for SNMP queries.

▸ quoted from Juan Guzman

GLH 
-----Original Message-----
From: Juan Guzman [mailto:user-9ad032fbc45a@xymon.invalid] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 9:33 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] sending snmp traps

I want hobbit to forward all alerts as snmp traps, but don't know much
(if
anything) about snmp, other than how to do some queries.  I would get my
hands dirty with perl, but I don't know enough about snmp.

From: "Hubbard, Greg L" <user-d970b5e56ec9@xymon.invalid>
Reply-To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
To: <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
Subject: RE: [hobbit] sending snmp traps
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 09:23:11 -0500

Juan, can your software monitor syslog?  It would probably be much easier to use logger to send a message to your monitoring console than it will be to define your own traps.  SNMP trap definition requires some knowledge of MIB's and OIDs and varbinds and PDU's and such.  Syslog is just text processing.

GLH

-----Original Message-----
From: Juan Guzman [mailto:user-9ad032fbc45a@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 8:30 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] sending snmp traps

I agree, but I don't know the snmp trap format.  Can somebody point me in the right direction of what a trap consists of?

thanks

From: user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid (Henrik Stoerner)
Reply-To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] sending snmp traps
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 22:18:12 +0200

On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 03:38:17PM -0400, Juan Guzman wrote:

Has anybody configured hobbit to send traps to a monitopring > > sofware,
e.g.
tivoli?  I'm looking for hobbit to send a trap when something > > turns
yellow
or red.

Using the "SCRIPT" mechanism in hobbit-alerts.cfg lets you run a >command to notify about an alert. It should be fairly simple to write

script that sends an SNMP trap from this.


Regards,
Henrik

list John Glowacki · Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:50:55 -0400 ·

This old thread might help you.
http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2005/09/msg00154.html

John

▸ quoted from Juan Guzman


Juan Guzman wrote:

I agree, but I don't know the snmp trap format.  Can somebody point me 
in the right direction of what a trap consists of?

thanks

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