Re: [Fwbuilder-discussion] I need the SNMP tool

[James W. <James@Seekio.COM>]

On Feb 22, 2007, at 2:34 PM, Vadim Kurland =E2=9C=8E wrote:

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> First of all, I am not sure you'll see may reply. I have replied to =20=

> your previous post but got email bounce from your Barracuda spam =20
> "firewall" saying my message content has been rejected. I wonder if =20=

> I am going to get the same one for this email too.

I fixed the Barracuda.  :-)

> On Feb 22, 2007, at 1:24 PM, James Ward wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm evaluating Firewall Builder for my organization.  We have 200+
>> linux hosts on the internet and the number is growing all the time.
>
> you say these hosts are "on the internet". Are they located on your =20=

> LAN, where you have access to the router or they are truly out =20
> there on the Internet? If the latter, I do not see how snmp can =20
> help you discover them.

The servers are co-located in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and =20
Florida.  We currently have our firewalls set to allow us to gather =20
SNMP data from all of them for various monitoring purposes (primarily =20=

nagios).

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>> For this evaluation, I'd REALLY like to have the SNMP discovery
>> feature working, but every way I've tried to install it so far, it's
>> been missing.
>>
>> I see that I need at least version 2.1.7+, so I moved away from
>> Debian (package too old) and installed it on my Mac.  Still not
>> there,
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> which version you installed on the Mac ? It is available in Mac OS =20
> X package, it is in the Tools/Discovery Druid.

I have 2.1.9-1 and you're right, it IS there!  Not sure how I missed =20
it before.  Thanks!

Now I'm off to SNMP populate my objects on the Mac!

James=