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From: scott@yuma.acns.colostate.edu (Scott Baily)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: PC-based SNMP Agent/LAN Monitor
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Date: 14 Mar 91 03:21:37 GMT
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Reply-To: scott@yuma.acns.colostate.edu (Scott Baily)
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523
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  I'm looking for an inexpensive way to monitor basic
traffic characteristics for our 25+ ethernet subnetworks.

  It seems that PC's could be dedicated to counting frames,
bytes, collisions, errors, etc. The current value of these
accumulators could then be periodically retrieved via SNMP
queries.

  I've seen references to public domain and shareware
implementations of PC-based monitoring tools, and I imagine
someone has ported the [ CMU/MIT/PSI/other ] SNMP agent to
a DOS environment. I'm unaware of any (non-commercial) work
toward combining these types of utilities, and I'm interested 
in doing just that.

  I would very much like to hear from those of you 
experienced with DOS-based monitoring or SNMP agent 
software. Which packages do you recommend for such a
project. Which would you stay away from? What are
realistic hardware requirements? Has anyone already
done this? 

  Many thanks in advance,

  Scott Baily
  Colorado State University