You can use this tool to "walk" the OID tree on the device.įor your testing and development work you can use SNMP v1/2c. It will help you narrow in the exact value you want to query. It will show you in human readable terms what the mib setting is vs just having the OID values. If your device manufacturer offers an SNMP MIB, you can load it into the mib browser then query your device.
#Configure monitor with kaseya agent using mib free#
The free (personal) version is good enough for you to understand communicating with your SNMP devices. That's great that your devices support snmp, that is over half of the battle just being able to communicate with the devices beyond a simple ping.įor doing exploratory work you can use iReasoning's mib browser: Īs you learn about mib OIDs and how they work use this tool to query your devices and get the expected results. When it comes to SNMP I am a complete novice so feel free to dumb it down, because until I do it once and wrap my head around it it is just not going to click. Its pricing and scalability are pretty nice and if I understand it the system can run without having a VPN.Īre there any other solutions I should look at.Īny helpful direction you might point me for understanding SNMP (I have of course googled and have a few but someone might have one I have not.)
I have been looking at Paessier PRTG as it seems like something that might be just what I need. I'm am just hoping to do it without having to make sure of a VPN. There would be a centralized server for collection of all the data, maybe hosted in out home office or cloud. I am also hoping to find a solution that can work without the need to maintain a VPN. Device being monitored sends SNMP traps to a server that collects them.Īre there SNMP monitoring solutions that instead reach out and actively pull the SNMP data from the devices on the network(devices being ones I have added.) rather then the device reporting data to the SNMP server. From my understanding the flow of it goes something like this. I however am not overly families with SNMP so I have started reading up on it. I plan on monitoring Digital Cinema equipment, the servers are pretty easy but the projectors are a little less so. However, it all has SNMP available so I would think that there should not be to much of an issue if I have something that can monitor SNMP.
The hardware being monitored is not the every day IT hardware we all see in a normal network. Recently I have been asked to come up with a solution to monitor a few different physical locations and there networks. Good day everyone, I hope everyone is surviving in the new world.