How to obtain Temperature Data, Power and Fan Status with SNMP

[Heinz W Genhart]

Does somebody know:

- how to load MIB's on OpenVMS
- where we can get the required MIB's for obtaining Temperature Data, Power and Fan Status

Are there some examples somwhere ?

[John Gillings]

Heinz,

Not all Alpha systems have hardware status available to software. You can check to see if your system has any temperature sensors with:

$ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$GETSYI("TEMPERATURE_VECTOR")

An error message or lots of FF's mean no sensors.

See http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=978342

for some discussion and further references.

I think the official HP line on SNMP and OpenVMS is "Buy OpenView". There may be 3rd party alternatives that you can probably find with Google.

[Heinz W Genhart]

I supplied this forum already with code to optain this information on older machines like a AlphaServer 4100.

But on newer machines, like ES45 and GS1280 those SYI item codes doesn't work.

The only way I know how to obtain this information on newer Alpha machines, are SNMP Traps, but I don't know exactly how to do this. How I can 'load' MIB's, how I have to spell the trap to get the required informatione

[Ian Miller. · Accepted solution]

The current version of the Insight Management Agents can obtain temprature information
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/mgmt_agents/index.html

[Heinz W Genhart]

The Solution with the OVO Client works well.