SNMP Support on L1000 Server!!

[Chris Fung]

Hi all,

Just wondering whether L1000 server running HP-UX 11.0 supports SNMP or not? If so, how to configure it to send SNMP message or traps to the management server?? We don't have HP OpenView installed in our site, could we use Toptools downloaded from HP website to manage the L1000 server? However, I couldn't find the agent for server!! Is there any cheap solutions I can use to fulfill the above requirements?

Related links are appreciated as well.

Thanks a lot!!
Chris,

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

I run MRTG in my environment to monitor via snmpget the CPU, memory, swap, processes and tcp connection utilisation on the HP-UX servers by querying the HP-UX MIBs on the servers. If you can't access the MIBs, you need to install the OV EMANATE agent. Don't forget the patch PHSS_20544 as well.

$ uname -rs
HP-UX B.11.00
$ /usr/sbin/swlist -l product|grep -i EMANATE
PHSS_20544 1.0 OV EMANATE14.2 Agent Consolidated Patch
$ /usr/sbin/swlist -l product|grep -i SNMP
OVSNMPAgent B.11.00 HP-UX_10.0_SNMP_Agent_Product

To activate the SNMP daemon and agent during server reboot, modify the Snmp* configuration files in /etc/rc.config.d.

$ grep "^SNMP" /etc/rc.config.d/Snmp*
/etc/rc.config.d/SnmpHpunix:SNMP_HPUNIX_START=1 # Start the hp-unix MIB SNMP subAgent by default.
/etc/rc.config.d/SnmpMaster:SNMP_MASTER_START=1 # Start the master SNMP agent.
/etc/rc.config.d/SnmpMib2:SNMP_MIB2_START=1 # Start the MIB2 SNMP subAgent.
/etc/rc.config.d/SnmpTrpDst:SNMP_TRAPDEST_START=1 # Start the master SNMP agent.

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

I forgot to mention that it works on our L1000 servers as well.

I also forgot to mention the configuration file /etc/snmpd.conf which you must use to specify your public and private community strings as well as SNMP trap destinations.

#get-community-name: # enter community name
#set-community-name: # enter community name
#contact: # enter contact person for agent
#location: # enter location of agent
#max-trap-dest: # enter max no. of trap-dest entries to be maintained.
#trap-dest: # enter trap destination
ience:

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong