Pasted from my post at another forum, any ideas?
I work for a publishing company and we have a mixed environment of mac and pc. We have some macs who are moving large amounts of images to and from a server. Recently users have complained that the speed periodically drops. We are looking to monitor these machines via SNMP from orion (solar winds). The mac i worked with was running 10.4.8, I went into the terminal and did 'sudo pico /etc/hostconfig' and changed the line "SNMPSERVER=-NO-" to '-YES-". I then did 'snmpconf -i -g basic_setup' I restarted the machine and my coworker was able to find the machine in the machine list, and validate an SNMPv1 connection. However the connection drops after 3-4 minutes (not long enough for orion to gather any information about it)
Any ideas why the snmp would suddenly stop transmitting? When it went to the config I set the rwcommunity to something private, however I set the rocommunity to public (which orion defaults to).
I have another machine running 10.3.9 where I am unable to get SNMP to 'start'. The terminal says that it starts the service, but we cant get a connection to it from orion. When I edited the hostconfig on this computer, I had to add the line "SNMPSERVER=-YES-" instead of just changing the variable. Any thoughts? We would like to get these machines into solar winds so we can gather statistics on transfer times/avg throughput/errors. Thanks for any help!
I work for a publishing company and we have a mixed environment of mac and pc. We have some macs who are moving large amounts of images to and from a server. Recently users have complained that the speed periodically drops. We are looking to monitor these machines via SNMP from orion (solar winds). The mac i worked with was running 10.4.8, I went into the terminal and did 'sudo pico /etc/hostconfig' and changed the line "SNMPSERVER=-NO-" to '-YES-". I then did 'snmpconf -i -g basic_setup' I restarted the machine and my coworker was able to find the machine in the machine list, and validate an SNMPv1 connection. However the connection drops after 3-4 minutes (not long enough for orion to gather any information about it)
Any ideas why the snmp would suddenly stop transmitting? When it went to the config I set the rwcommunity to something private, however I set the rocommunity to public (which orion defaults to).
I have another machine running 10.3.9 where I am unable to get SNMP to 'start'. The terminal says that it starts the service, but we cant get a connection to it from orion. When I edited the hostconfig on this computer, I had to add the line "SNMPSERVER=-YES-" instead of just changing the variable. Any thoughts? We would like to get these machines into solar winds so we can gather statistics on transfer times/avg throughput/errors. Thanks for any help!
