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the-wabbit

08:43

@MarkHenderson Mark, did you finally succeed resolving your issue with Magic XPA / UniPaaS and SNMP monitoring?

groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/magicu-l/conversations/topics/…

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Mark Henderson

10:51

@the-wabbit ok kinda creepy you tracked me down from a yahoo group ;) but no

I even opened a case with magic support but they were not very helpful

I remember in about 2006 I had it working with Magic 9.5 but I never had it working with uni pass, ever

We actually gave up for our internal clusters years ago and wrote our own monitoring tool that would get request data from mgrqcmdl and log it into SQL and then wrote another layer to display a dashboard that gave per-server stats and graphs and shit

But I don't work there any more so I don't know if they ever figured it out. They were working on it when I left (the snmp thing)

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Journeyman Geek

12:43

All long help threads should have a sticky globally-editable post at the top saying 'DEAR PEOPLE FROM THE FUTURE: Here's what we've figured out so far ...'

Seems appropriate

the-wabbit

13:16

@JourneymanGeek it certainly is. Just replace DenverCoder9 with TheFarSeeker and that matchstick man is me. Only that I immediately knew who wrote that post and where to find him :-)

Journeyman Geek

And you asked him what did he see.... ;p

Less shaking tho

the-wabbit

@MarkHenderson Pity. We are parsing mgrqcmdl output as well, but SNMP would make life easier for us.

@JourneymanGeek I would not be too sure about the "less shaking" part. Although it is a laptop screen instead.

Thanks folks, I got to go. Have a nice weekend.

Mark Henderson

13:46

@the-wabbit I have never met another stranger who is using uniPaaS

I've only ever met others at conferences and whatnot

Our Magic distributor was in New Zealand and we were in Australia and of course Magic is in Israel so any troubleshooting we did needed to coordinate all three parties which was a nightmare

Which is why I used to fall back to the usergroup

If memory serves correct, you had to install the SNMP Windows service, then install the broker, which would give you the snmp.dll

Once the broker was installed you needed to enable SNMP in the mgrb.ini

Restart the broker

And it was meant to magically work

But of course... it didn't

When I left we were meant to be building a test environment for them to remote into to test it, but our client was like "oh hella no"

No wait, we already did the test environment and Magic asked if they could try it on the live environment

And thats when our customer was "fuck no"

And for our own servers, like I said we had our own monitor that was a thousand times better than the Magic one

I did try to reverse engineer the protocol that the built-in broker monitor used but I never had any luck. It's not published and I couldn't get it even with an NDA

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