HP-3000 Systems Discussion wrote:
> Anybody have any experiences please? I knew what SNMP was,
> but didn't even think mpe might support it. Question came up
> the other day, checked the web, and there it is. Tried to get
> something out of the system, nothing. A brief
> RTFM   , change SNMPCONF.NET.SYS community name, enable snmpudc.net,
> do a snmpcontrol updateconfig and away we go.
> 
> Most useful thing so far is being able to get cpu usage after
> turning on the Measurement interface..since our demo glance expired.
> 
> Just need to build some xeq files to reduce the amount of
> keying needed - the resource names are just too long.

I use SNMP on my 3000s (at customer site I manage) to allow better
monitoring by HP OpenView NNM... Have used it for over 7 years there now.

There have been serious issues with the agent in the past (get it patched)
but mostly it works well.

It's been many years since I've written command files on the 3000 that did
any SNMP stuff; I did write one many years ago that allowed us to trigger an
alarm on the OpenView system from a command file on the 3000; it was less
than intuitive to write though. 

OpenView NNM (and other network monitoring tools) can be easily configured
to do SNMP collections and threshold checking; where you browse the MIB,
locate a variable/field you want to monitor, and tell NNM to poll the system
every 'n' minutes, and generate an alarm if the value exceeds the threshold
value you specify.

By default, programs like OpenView NNM poll systems they find to determine
the system OID (identifies the system type), get location and contact info,
and interrogate the interface/routing table to determine what network
interfaces are present, what they connect to, and what their status is.

HTH,
 -Chris B

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