If you're the kind of Mac administrator who likes to be notified when a drive fails or a server goes offline (the word for this kind of Mac admin is "employable"), you'll want to check out John Welch's deep-dive primer for SNMP on the Mac. Building on a May 2007 introductory article from Andrina Kelly at MacEnterprise, John provides a walkthrough for Leopard's new SNMP hardware reporting and much more helpful info.For those asking "What the heck is SNMP?" see here. Simple Network Management Protocol lets you monitor remote devices, servers and printers in a lightweight and reasonably standardized fashion. Whenever you see a gaggle of geeks checking Blackberries or iPhones and casually announcing "Server's down," chances are you're seeing SNMP at work.
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12-05-2007 @ 12:39PM
Pete said...
If anyone is looking for a nice front-end for SNMP, check out Lithium. We've been using it for our servers and it is just awesome.
http://www.lithiumcorp.com
(I don't have any stake in the company, just glad that companies like that exist so I can use their products.)
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12-05-2007 @ 1:40PM
Jimmy said...
I'd love to know how to monitor CPU usage with SNMP and MRTG if anyone knows. :)
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