argh, SNMP can really chafe!

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Using version 1:

% snmpget -c COMMSTRING -M /usr/local/share/snmp/mibs -v 1 -m
USAGE-MIB:PROXY-MIB:REDLINE-STATS-MIB:REDLINE-STATS-MIB:REDLINE-CONFIG-M
IB hostname REDLINE-STATS-MIB::sessActive.0 Error in packet
Reason: (noSuchName) There is no such variable name in this MIB.
Failed object: REDLINE-STATS-MIB::sessActive.0

Using version 2 (2c):
% snmpget -c COMMSTRING -M /usr/local/share/snmp/mibs -v 2c -m
USAGE-MIB:PROXY-MIB:REDLINE-STATS-MIB:REDLINE-STATS-MIB:REDLINE-CONFIG-M
IB hostname REDLINE-STATS-MIB::sessActive.0
REDLINE-STATS-MIB::sessActive.0 = Counter64: 12247

Slightly annoying that – but makes certain sense

the war of the worlds reprise

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well it looks like war of the worlds is going to be back on tour in the UK next year, so will definitely have to look at going to see a show when they’re in London.

What I didn’t know is that they used image metrics to model Richard Burton’s face during the dialogue, which I remembered reading about in the last few weeks. So will be interesting to see what they can do coming up

fare thee well drupal

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So after nearly two and a half years I’ve finally said farewell to drupal and gone back to wordpress, why?

Well mostly because I was finding drupal a little too complicated for what I was really wanting – which was just a simple place to keep track of random things – will mean I’ll loose the ability of doing some things that I did like to throw together, but then again – I shouldn’t have so much time to do that now either!

Lets see how long this lasts!

solaris zone utilisation via SNMP

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It’s been a bug-bear for a long time for me that the CPU metrics when querying a Solaris 10 host are global and not zone specific (which of course makes sense, just makes it harder to track zone utilisation).

So finally wrote a basic perl script that will provide that information via a SNMP mib, output looks like the following:


> snmpwalk -v 1 -c public localhost .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.255.7
UCD-SNMP-MIB::ucdavis.255.7.0 = STRING: "Zone name"
UCD-SNMP-MIB::ucdavis.255.7.1 = STRING: "global"
UCD-SNMP-MIB::ucdavis.255.7.2 = STRING: "gallery"
UCD-SNMP-MIB::ucdavis.255.7.3 = STRING: "nakos"
UCD-SNMP-MIB::ucdavis.255.7.4 = STRING: "mcdougallfamily"
UCD-SNMP-MIB::ucdavis.255.7.5 = STRING: "shared"
UCD-SNMP-MIB::ucdavis.255.7.6 = STRING: "packer"
UCD-SNMP-MIB::ucdavis.255.7.7 = STRING: "si"

Script is available at here

Current bugs/issues
# snmpwalk will not step through all the sub-trees

iWeb

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well, just sat down and actually had a play with iWeb ’08, and it’s actually pretty good – ok, i’ve yet to have a good look at the HTML it creates; but in terms of ease of use – it’s very easy, though i did have to use a rsync script to make publishing a little simpler (although webdav does work pretty well if that’s your thing)

http://iweb.dubdubdub.co.uk/Welcome.html