HP-UX Host Resource MIB

[Ben Dehner]

I hate cross-posting, but I'll try this here; the folks in the network management/general forum apparently aren't familiar with this.

We have a third-part application (Solar Winds by Orion) that we are using to monitor basic host data such as CPU, disk and memory. For this application to work, it requires that the SNMP agent on the host understand the host resource MIB described by RFCs 1514 and 2790. The standard SNMP agents on HP-UX (11.11 and 11.23) apparently do not have this MIB. Does anyone know which, if any, SNMP agents would supply this MIB?

[Oviwan]

Hey

check this mib depot:
http://www.mibdepot.com

Hope this helps

Regards

[Ben Dehner]

Thank you. That's a good site, but it doesn't have the MIB's. I did a search by the RFC's, and there was nothing for HP.

[grahamswilson · Accepted solution]

Hi Ben,

I went through this issue also. I found the "Net-SNMP" product on the IExpress CD did provide HOST MIB functionality, which was good, but then I lost a whole bunch of other stuff that was provided by the original HP SNMP daemons. (I also found Net-SNMP was not very stable.) What I ended up doing was buying the "CIAgent"/Emanate product from "SNMP Research". This provides a HOST resources MIB that runs along side the out-the-box HP daemons and works very well.

I failed to find any other solution than this.

Hope that helps...

[Ben Dehner]

Thank you very much. This gets confusing.

SNMP Research Incorporated (http://www.snmp.com) sells an SNMP Master agent -- their "Emanate" Master agent -- and subagents. The CIAgent sub-agent in particular has the host monitoring mibs that I'm looking for. if you just get this agent, it comes bundled a (probably limited) version of the master agent, because the master agent is what handles the network connectivity.

Here's where it gets confusing. Most every HP-UX system is already running the Emanate SNMP master agent. It's bundled with the OS, and HP has apparently licensed it from SNMP RI. Right now I'm trying to get the new sub-agent to "play" properly with the existing master, or something like that.

[grahamswilson]

You are completely correct.

Just so you know, in the end I opted to keep the existing out-the-box HP "Emanate" version running, and simply run the HOST mib agent (from the SNMP Research version) on top of the existing agents. It works very well...

This is quite possible as all the different agents are literally just individual compiled binaries, so you can pick and choose which ones you want to run very easily...

[Ben Dehner]

Thanks for the responses.

The CIAgent from SNMP Research Inc. seems to be the right way to go. It's not simply a matter of getting the MIB, there has to be an agent on the system that can query for the data. As Graham pointed out, it is easy to add in the CIAgent sub-agent to the existing configuration, since the system is already running the Emanate agent anyway.