[Info-vax] Is anyone using TCPIP SNMP to monitor system status?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2019-05-24 14:41:26 +0000, Rod Regier said:

> My current organizational SNMP monitoring product is recording data 
> from the TCPIP OpenVMS SNMP service that we have enabled for inhouse 
> nodes.
> 
> The raw data isn't very useful without context of both system capacity 
> and workloads.
> 
> Is there a reference documentation source(s) that would elaborate on 
> what kinds of information is available thru that conduit?


The SNMPv2 (insecure) MIB documentation and descriptions—what little 
there is here—are (were) split between the TCP/IP Services 
documentation, and in the System Management Homepage (SMH) product 
(very insecure) documentation, depending on the specific versions.  
I've replicated exploits in SMH.

Check the newsgroup archives for some previous discussions, check the 
RFCs for details of the standard bits, and check with HPE or VSI 
support for details and plans.  VSI has not widely discussed their 
future plans around SMH—if they have rights to that product—nor more 
generally around SNMP monitoring of OpenVMS beyond whatever will be in 
the fork of Process Multinet that they're now testing.  I'd expect the 
VSI TCPIP fork to have SNMPv3, but I've not verified that with the 
Process docs or the beta.


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