[Nut-upsdev] SNMP on HP UPS

[Philip Ward]

Sorry about that. I should check when sending replies. Should the list
not be set up so that replies to messages from the list go to the list
rather than the poster?

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Philip Ward
Unix Systems Administrator
Ext 7274


On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 15:42 +0100, Arjen de Korte wrote:
> Please keep list traffic on the list.
> 
> ----- Doorgestuurd bericht van p.g.ward at stir.ac.uk -----
>      Datum: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:59:37 +0100
>        Van: Philip Ward <p.g.ward at stir.ac.uk>
>   Onderwerp: Re: [Nut-upsdev] SNMP on HP UPS
>        Aan: Arjen de Korte <nut+devel at de-korte.org>
> 
> Sure,
> 
> The output is attached.
> 
> However, it is not just unsupported OIDs that are a problem, but also
> different OIDs.
> 
> output voltage is "1.3.6.1.2.1.33.1.4.4.1.2.1" on the af401a but ietf
> has it at "1.3.6.1.2.1.33.1.4.4.1.2.0"
> output current is "1.3.6.1.2.1.33.1.4.4.1.3.1" on the af401a but ietf
> has it at "1.3.6.1.2.1.33.1.4.4.1.3.0"
> 
> Similarly for input.frequency, input.voltage and input.current. I'm not
> sure that there is a way around these differences without either a new
> mib, or changing the way that the driver scans the OID tree to try and
> resolve them.
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to consider this.
> 
> -
> Philip Ward
> Unix Systems Administrator
> Ext 7274
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 14:30 +0100, Arjen de Korte wrote:
> > Citeren Philip Ward <p.g.ward at stir.ac.uk>:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > Therefore I have created af401amib.h which is just a modified copy of
> > > ietfmib.h.
> >
> > In that case, I very much doubt that it is needed to add another MIB
> > to snmp-ups. Unsupported OIDs are meant to be ignored. Unless they
> > happen to be the one that is used to check if the MIB is supported of
> > course, this shouldn't cause the driver to exit at any time.
> >
> > > Here are the differences between ietfmib and af401amib
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > Since the SNMP driver complains and exits if it tries to access a value
> > > that is not supported it was necessary to completely remove upsupported
> > > items from the specification.
> >
> > The SNMP driver *will* complain about unsupported OIDs (unfortunately,
> > telling you that it is an error), but should proceed anyhow.
> >
> > Could you post the output of
> >
> >      /path/to/snmp-ups -DDD -a upsname
> >
> > for the original (unmodified) snmp-ups driver?
> >
> > Best regards, Arjen
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