Adding a SUN Solaris 8 to Orion 9

Question

Hi.

I am new to the forum.

I have searched, but maybe my skills are not there yet to find what I am looking for.

I want to monitor memory, CPU, disk usage, etc...on a Sun Solaris 8 server.

I have found some things, but it looked like older Orion releases.

I have the newest 9.0 release, but when I add it, it only shows port statistics and such.

Can anyone point me in the right direction please?

I would really appreciate it.  :)

jhoward · Answer

The README.Solaris file is pretty helpful in setting net-snmp up on Solaris 8. For standard polling (disk, memory, cpu, ethernet) all you need to do is follow the instructions on compiling from source (./configure --some-options, make, make install) and then run the snmpconf program to configure a readonly community. My snmpd.conf file literally only consists of my readonly community string and the allowed hosts.

We have a bunch of older Solaris 8 machines we need to monitor and I found it easier to leave the Sun snmp agent  enabled and make net-snmp run on port 163 instead of making net-snmp a sub agent. When you add the node in SW it gives you the disk, memory, cpu and network interfaces by default.

I have had problems with SW trying to poll old deprecated SNMP values instead of the newer ones for CPU and RAM in net-snmp but I haven't seen a big push for SW to fix it even though it seems to be a popular issue.

Kevalson · Answer

I have 5.4.1.

You are right.  Not much to go on that I can find.

Do I need to install GCC first?

Been reading up on it, and I do not think I have it, nor how to install it.

mark_wiggans · Answer

Without an SNMP Agent that provides access to the Host-Resource-Mibs, all you will see is the Interface and some In/Out Traffic stats.

Which net-snmp version do you have on the Solaris boxes? I believe the version that has reported the most success is 5.4.1. Unfortunately there is little documentation at  http://www.net-snmp.org/  that shows configuration.