Thanks for the help. I am starting to suspect that our vendor build net-snmp with some odd options (unfortunently they come preconfigured to "help" us out) and I will try to rebuild it correctly with clean sources. Thanks for the help and I will update here if I get it working.

I dont have much net-snmp proxy setup experience.  Just reading thru some docs and web posts this would be kind of what you want to do.  it gets longer when you start using V2 or V3 as you need to include your auth in the proxy line.

proxy -v 1 -c remote_host .1.3.6.1.2.1.4.

com2sec readonly default public

http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Snmpd_proxy

Wish I could be of more help

I tried dropping net-snmp from the host in question but in doing so it took that host out of monitoring. The monitoring tool that we use is Zenoss and we abuse its trending information. If I switch back to the AIX snmpd I can get all the interface stats that I want into Zenoss, But I loose the CPU and ram monitoring with it.

I am thinking that I need to proxy some snmp queries to the AIX snmpd but have been unable to do so. Unfortunently, Zenoss is way to intergrated with the rest of the network to start replacing it now, and the boss wants one tool to use to get everything monitored.

Do you know how I would go about getting net-snmp to proxy to the builting snmpd correctly? The only OIDs that I need to monitor are
1.3.6.1.2.1.4.20.1.1
1.3.6.1.2.1.4.21.1.1
if that helps any.

Otherwise, any good sugestions for a multi-os monitoring tool that is as non-invasive as snmp?


Thanks

John has asked me to create a separate section in the main (Joomla) portal so that employers can advertise for a fee.

I have this in place - and John needs to review it, come up with rates, etc..

Tell us how important it is to you to be able to advertise yourself - as looking for a job.

Note: I am not intending on making any of this targeted to IP addresses or requesting URL's. We are looking for ways to make hosting rootvg cost us less - or even be enough for a new toy - e.g. a new server to play with.

If you prefer - you can use a PM (personal message) to contact either John or I - for this - John is the person to contact.

This is a supported configuration (one virtual adapter in the partition (LPAR) starting with HACMP 5.3 I believe. Current HACMP software level is HACMP 5.4.1.

I will be getting to this in my HACMP articles.

Basically, the main thing I try to focus on is separating the application files (data) and applications (binarys) from rootvg as much as possible into a separate volume group.
This has the added advantage of making your application nearly HACMP ready.
Once you have this ready the next "best" step is to prepare an extra (empty) disk for a new version of rootvg - the method is called a "alt disk installation" and we choose the clone variation.

Basically, what this entails:

• make a mksysb backup of your current system to tape, or a nim server.
  install the alt_disk_install filesets for your current filesystem from the NEW AIX installation media (e.g. alt_disk_install for AIX 5.2)
  
• use the smit alt_disk_install dialogs to make a clone of the current AIX rootvg, and then run the migration install on the clone. This has two basic advantages: downtime is minimal - the migration is done while the old system is up and running; and you can return to the old system if it is not functioning properly with the new system.
  
• Thus - the next step is reboot - using SMS menu to choose new disk as boot device - and test the new situation. Testing should probably be considered as "downtime".
  
• Last: if you are satisfied (or QA is satisfied) then you can delete the old_rootvg.
  

My suggestions:

• Update the application first - assuming it is supported from AIX 5.2 thru AIX 6.1 and be sure the application is functioning properly with application updates applied (and later confirmed).
  
• Practice a few times on a AIX 5.2 system with AIX 5.2 to AIX 6.1 alt install - and compare that to just importing the application volume group on a fresh install of AIX 6.1`(or AIX 5.3, etc.).

I am in the process of planning a migration from 5.2 to 6.1.  Anyone have any pointers, tips, or gotchas to offer up.  The LPARS I am planning for are all running Oracle.

Thanks in advance

Thanks man. This is due next week and I will let you know how it goes.

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We are starting the process of virtualizing the network adapters on our HACMP cluster members.  Since each virtual adapter is supported by two real NICs (primary and backup) the idea is to have only one virtual adapter per network on each HACMP member.  Up till now we've had two NICs per network (with two networks) on each cluster member.  Does anybody have any experience doing something like this?  I'm wondering if anybody has any tips or valuable experiences to share.