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Re: [Bigsister-general] plugin for environmental variables


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

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Niels Baggesen - @home - Århus - Denmark - suppressed
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers   ---   R W Hamming

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