# SNMP monitoring of ethernet repeaters # # Returns 1 on SNMP errors, 2 for other errors (usually failure to # communicate with device). # # Phil Gregory # # rptr.monitor, v. 0.9, 2000-02-28 # # Initially derived from the hpnp.monitor code. # # # Copyright (C) 2000, Phil Gregory # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA # # # Still TODO: # # - Be more discerning about errors. Currently, everything not # "operational" is considered an error. Depending on how people use # this, the monitor may only want to report "malfunctioning" groups # and ports. # # - The program should try to detect cases where the host exists, but # does not support the correct MIB. (In this case, the repeater MIB.) # # - Checking the ports to see if they're autopartitioned might be # useful. # # - There may be a better way to work through the ports. In particular, # there should only be entries in rptrGroupTable for existing groups. # Querying only existing groups is much better on the bandwidth than # trying all possible groups and ignoring the errors (which is how the # script currently works). It also appears possible for ports to be # numbered higher than the maximum number of ports--e.g. the 3Com SSII # switch 1000 where the 13 ports are numbered 1-12 and 14. (I need to # look at UCD's snmptable and see how they get table dimensions.)