Tag: eBox
First look at SNMP management
by Stede on May.02, 2010, under Computers, Networks
While using an excellent network monitoring utility from MikroTik called The Dude I discovered I’d been missing something very basic from my arsenal of geeky software tools, SNMP. Simple Network Management Protocol has been around for a long time and can provide some useful insight into what’s happening with the servers, workstations, printers, switches and routers on your network. Want to keep an eye on the CPU load of a VMWare host? See how much bandwidth is being used on the 10 Gigabit link to your fileserver? SNMP can do it.
Here I am going to look at read-only SNMP monitoring with the barebones setup needed to see what use the information may be to you. I’m not going to try and explain how SNMP works or even consider that exposing all the MIB’s could hog resources on the machines that are being monitored. Sorting all that can come later.
