[rtg] Developing a carrier-class replacement for rtgtargmaker.pl
Brian T. O'Neill
btoneill at misplaced.net
Wed May 10 20:34:23 EDT 2006
Have you taken a look at my targetmaker package for creating the targets
file along with the web interface for handling all the additional
information that is gathered?
http://www.misplaced.net/~btoneill/rtg/
Brian
Quoting Steve Scaffidi (sscaffidi at gmail.com) from :
> Hi there.
>
> I've been playing with RTG for the past two months with the idea that I may
> be able to use it to replace Trend SNMP. The poller itself is quite
> impressive and works exactly as I'd like it to.
>
> However, I ended up having several serious issues with rtgtargmaker.pl,
> making that script unusable for configuring RTG for my network. It functions
> exactly as it's supposed to, but I have some very ornery SNMP devices.
>
> On the other hand, the beauty of open source is that one can simply fix or
> replace what doesn't work for what does.
>
>
> I work for a company with a large network with several dozen different types
> of devices. I've begun writing a configuration engine for RTG, in Perl, that
> should address my (and my company's) needs, and perhaps it could be useful
> for others using RTG.
>
> I have already applied for hosting of the project on Sourceforge.net and I
> hope to be approved within a week. Currently, I consider my code in
> pre-alpha state - 75% of the basic functionality is written. I plan on
> having a functional *alpha* demo within a week.
>
> If anyone on the list is interested, I would be delighted to have the input
> of some other developers.
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