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[John Lacey]

Jon Baer wrote:

>Yep ... I have a few sensors laying around which speak SNMP (v1) and I 
>have the MIB so I was thinking of a web interface for it, but it seems like a 
>generic idea would be nice to have.
>
>Does having traps sent directly to email/sms make sense?  Im sure this 
>occurs all the time ...
>  
>
yeah, traps (aka alerts) are pretty handy... for example, say a core 
router WAN link goes down.  That sends an alert to the monitoring 
program (eg. HPOpenView) on the UDP trap port 162.   With an important 
router link down, a support person will probably get paged automagically.

Ok, I've got a working php5 environment now and I'm using a small test 
MIB with the snmp_read_mib() call.  I've gotten by that but cannot see 
anything else with the usual print_r's.  Fired up my Zend Studio to have 
a look-see with the debugger, and got a fatal error -- no such function 
-- so... I'm in the process of downloading the new 3.5 Studio which 
should take care of that problem, since the read_mib call is new in 
php5.  29MB on a dialup... sheeesh.

stay tuned,
John