[Nut-upsuser] nut snmp

[Arnaud Quette]

Hi

2012/4/24 ramazan firin <ramazan_firin at hotmail.com>

>  Hi.
>
> i see that in user-manuel.pdf
>
> "Similarly, if your UPS connects to your computer via an SNMP network
> card, you can probably add support for your device by
> writing a new subdriver to the existing snmp-ups driver."
>
> in this page, http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/nut-snmp
> "This package provides snmp-ups, the SNMP multi-MIB driver for UPS, which
> supports various MIBs including IETF, MGE, and APC. It adds an SNMP Manager
> interface to the core NUT system"
>
> i dont understand clearly,
>
> nut support snmp via network card ?
>

we are there talking about NUT that interface with a device (UPS, PDU,
whatever...), as it does with serial and USB devices, to get data, do
settings and issue commands.

but SNMP has 2 sides, which may be what is puzzling you:
- the agent: which is the UPS card, serving SNMP data,
- the manager, which is the NUT driver (snmp-ups), that consumes data from
the agent.
the snmp-ups driver is a generic driver that supports various MIBs and
types of devices.

I also once worked on an SNMP agent that provided NUT data through SNMP
(RFC 1628):
https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=312563&group_id=30602&atid=411544

For more info on SNMP, see for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Network_Management_Protocol

cheers,
Arnaud
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