RE: [Devmon] Inappropriate ioctl for device

[Schwimmer, E. E *H. <EE...@hs...>]

> The autodetection is nice, but think there should be a failsafe to
> override the autodetection by having the option to hardcode. I thouhgt
> hardcoding with the bbtag like "DEVMON:cisco-2920".
> =20

Ah, good idea.  And easy to implement, too :)  I'll get that out,
soonish.

>=20
> I have a lot of templates to make now ;) Anyone have=20
> suggestions on the
> best/eaiest method ?  I would assume I need to grab the SNMP MIB from
> the device vendor, and then use that info to make the template.
> Currently I have been reading the raw text MIB, and it barely makes
> sense ;)  Any tool you know of to assist ?
>=20

Well, I typically download the mib from the vendor and page through it,
and record the "interesting" oids.  You can use a mib browser, like the
free version of the ireasoning one, to make this easier.  I just use
'less', get the string version of the oid, and then use a snmpget -On
later to map it out to the numeric version.

-Eric