Question about parsing snmp output.

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 06:19, Bob Chiodini wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 12:17 +0900, Naoki wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have a number of FC boxes and all with snmp enabled. Does anybody know
> > of a nice script that will take the full SNMP dump and parse it to show
> > the packages installed, version, and install date?
> > 
> > It would make life easier when scanning a number of servers to see what
> > packages are installed/need updates etc.
> > 
> > There are many apps which will poll SNMP for traffic and performance
> > metrics but nothing I've found so far will report or track system
> > details. Would be really nice to troll through data on a server
> > regarding it's configuration history.
> > 
> 
> Last time I looked the default configuration for snmpd did not contain
> any MIB information for the installed packages.  Has this changed?
> 
> Wouldn't ssh be better suited to this kind of query?

I don't know much about the oid's involved, but if you do
an snmpwalk and your snmpd.conf allows everything you'll
see installed program names.

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  Les Mikesell
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