Re: SNMP Agent for Informix.

Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > > I guess that I'm just insanely dumb and obtuse, but IDS.2000 on NT and Sun > Solaris IDS 7.31 have something called onsnmp, which, IIRC, allows > integration of Informix monitoring with SNMP. Maybe it's platform specific? Ah, I'm just a simple c-isam/ Informix SE user (on Unixware,Openserver and Linux). Mmh. I still think that such support in the IDS2000 for snmp is controversial, whether it is truly a "feature" (compared to informix SE).

I guess that I'm just insanely dumb and obtuse, but IDS.2000 on NT and Sun Solaris IDS 7.31 have something called onsnmp, which, IIRC, allows integration of Informix monitoring with SNMP. Maybe it's platform specific? From: David Stes <stes@pandora.be> > >Olaf Klein wrote: > > > > On Sat, 06 May 2000 10:05:29 GMT, David Stes <stes@pandora.be> wrote: > > > > >> My system administrator says if this is true, Informix s..ks because >even > > >> an outdated database like Progress has such a tool. > > >SNMP (in its various versions) has a reputation of being insecure. >SNMP > > >is also a bit old, so that support for it existed perhaps in the past, > > >but I think the more modern approach would be to have a web interface > > >that runs over SSL (secure socket layer) to monitor the database would > > >be more logical than some ancient protocol like snmp. > > > > Webinterfaces may be modern, but they suck. How do you get the data from > > inside a program? > >You can download a file over https just as over ftp ... (with a command >line utility). This could be a file, a set of variables, that you'd >get via snmp get-next-request otherwise. > > > With snmp no problem, but to parse the HTML-Output is > > a pain in the arse... > >I'd much rather have an ssl or ssh interface to informix than snmp. >With snmp I'd be worrying that someone on the local network may get >access to the database via some security hole. Maybe I don't >sufficiently understand snmp, but the first thing I try to do is to turn >it off in printers, routers etc. So hopefully it will not be integrated >into Informix. As an optional module for those who like it, it's fine >of course. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com