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Kris Bash announced he is very close to a fairly scalable SNMP network device monitoring solution...
Over the past several weeks, I’ve been hard at work on some new SNMP management packs for Operations Manager 2007 R2, to replace the Cisco SNMP MP and extend similar functionality to a wide range of SNMP-enabled devices. In the next few posts, I hope to describe some of the design and development considerations related to these Management Packs, which I am calling the xSNMP Management Pack Suite. For this post, I hope to give a basic overview of the development effort and resulting management packs.
As I was working on some feature enhancements to the Cisco SNMP Management Pack, and following some really great discussions with others on potential improvements, I concluded that a more efficient and effective design could be realized by aligning the management pack structure along the lines of the SNMP standard itself. To expound on this point, much of the monitoring in the Cisco MP is not specific to Cisco devices, but rather, mostly common to all SNMP devices. The SNMP standard defines a hierarchical set of standard MIBs, and a hierarchical implementation of vendor-specific MIBS, with consideration to the elimination redundancy. I tried to loosely adapt this model in the xSNMP MP architecture. The first of the MP’s, and the one that all of the others depend on, is the root xSNMP Management Pack. This management pack has a few functions:
1. It performs the base discovery of SNMP devices (the discovery is targeted to the SNMP Network Device class)
2. It implements monitoring of the SNMP v1/v2 objects for discovered devices and interfaces
3. It provides a set of standardized and reusable data sources for use in dependent management packs
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Read the entire story on Kris Bash' Operating Quadrant blog HERE