On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 05:11:00PM +0200, Software Forums wrote: > > > May I suggest a much easier road: use SNMP. > > My first experience with SNMP years ago left in me the impression > that it required lot of time to setup and that it was unsecure. > The opposite was true with BigSister: I easily managed to set it up > and quickly and securely replicate it on equipment over the Internet. > Off course I'm open to give a second chance to SNMP. If you have to cross the public Internet, yes, there are security problems. I usually have VPN tunnels to remote locations which help. And the of course separate VLAN for management. > > I have written some testers, that are available for download from the > > BigSister site. > > I had a look at the list and by the name and short description I could > not tell which one would apply in my case (temp + fan speed). cpghlth and dell both do that. > > Using SNMP also has the great feature that it works remotely, i.e. you > > don't need to install any BigSister agents. > > But you still need to customize the SNMP agent config file, right? I may be strange, but I always configure SNMP anyway /Niels -- Niels Baggesen - @home - Århus - Denmark - suppressed The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers --- R W Hamming ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bigsister-general mailing list suppressed https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bigsister-general
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