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Hello FMS users,

after the installation and test of Pandora 1.2 I would like to say “thank you”
for this wonderful tool and for the excellent documentation about the project.

In the name of Pandora team: you’re welcome ! 🙂

For me, as a beginner of Pandora, the setup for SNMP in general is not clear. Maybe, I can get some more information and hints here.

Well, I would like to monitor my LAN switches and configure traps if
something went wrong.
In the manual I found “SNMP Agent”, but no information what is meant by this, how to set it up.
Can I contact the SNMP devices directly by FMS or do I have to program a user defined agent for this approach?

What is the best practice to monitor SNMP devies if I want to check for a number of SNMP information. like Fans, Power supplies, etc.?

Has somebody any experiences?

Thank you for your help and
… a merry christmas to all

R.D.

You have two choices to “poll” SNMP devices:

Use a linux agent as “satellite agent”, and define in the modules a correct snmpget command with correct syntax

Or use the new 1.2 network modules, directly configured from Pandora Console, and processed by Pandora Network Server.

You first need to have a Pandora Network Server running, later you need to create an agent and associate this agent with that network server, and finally you have to create network SNMP modules which gather information from remote device.

You can gather all informacion using a simple agent with many modules, or create many agents with few modules, it depends on you.

Defining SNMP module includes: setting remote IP address, SNMP community and OID (you can walk remote MIB if you set first SNMP Community and IP address).

For future version we want to include “default” settings like interfaces, memory, etc. depending on remote device.

For SNMP Trap console, first you need to install a correct version of snmptrapd and replace the snmptrapd binary used by pandora.

Then check that snmptrapd is running when starts pandora_snmpconsole startup script, this is the most problematic part of setup at this time because it depends too much on your linux distro and version.

By the way, we are looking for german-spoken people to help us to finish a unfinished german translation of Pandora console, could you help us ?.
😀