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Learning Nagios 3.0

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Learning Nagios 3.0

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning Nagios 3.0
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Graphical Tools


Using SNMP and the MIB tree is not a simple task. Many people, not very familiar with command line tools and the large amounts of information returned, might feel a bit overwhelmed by it. This is where graphical tools come in handy. And there are lots of freely-available tools that can visualize SNMP. We will discuss only a few of them.

The first tool is called mbrowse (see http://www.kill-9.org/mbrowse/). It is a graphical tool for browsing the MIB tree, querying attributes, and running a complete or partial walk through the MIB tree. This tool uses the SNMPv1 and the SNMPv2c protocols. It uses the Net-SNMP libraries and shares the same MIB definitions.

The following is a screenshot of the tool with a result from a walk and an expanded TCP tree:

Another interesting tool is TkIned (Tcl/tK based Interactive Network EDitor) from the Scotty package (https://trac.eecs.iu-bremen.de/projects/scotty/). This is a graphical tool that uses Tk for the graphical interface and Scotty for...