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From: dbfunk@ICAEN.UIOWA.EDU (David B Funk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: SNMP agent for apollo
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Date: 23 Oct 89 19:05:22 GMT
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WRT posting <822@soleil.UUCP>:

> I am currently using an implementation of SNMP on my network. I am 
> interested to find out if anyone knows of an SNMP
> agent that will run on an Apollo. I have about thirty five Apollos
> and it would be real helpful. One written under 9.7 or 10.1 would
> be good. 

I have looked at porting SNMP to Apollo and there is one major problem.
SNMP assumes that you have a Berkeley (or derivitives) kernal, it
wants to open "/dev/kmem" and go grubbing around in kernal memory
to put out IP stuff (stats, routing tables, etc). As the Apollo kernal
is totally different (in fact the tcp/ip tables aren't even in the
kernal) this won't work very well. The info is actually in a file
in user space (`node_data/tcp_data sr9.x & `node_data/systmp/tcp_data sr10)
and its format is undcoumented. It could be done but it would be messy.
There is hope though; at sr10.2 there are some new "ioctl" calls, that
are released, to export this kind of information to user processes.
With these calls at sr10.2 it should be relatively easy to port SNMP.

Dave Funk