| Title: | MAILBUS 400 User Forum |
| Notice: | kits 100-109 - Infocenter //www.digital.com/info/messaging |
| Moderator: | IOSG::MARSHALL |
| Created: | Thu Jun 11 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3210 |
| Total number of notes: | 9174 |
Hi,
I have a customer asking me for the MIB's he requires on an HP Openview
platform to gather information from Mailbus.
From looking at note 2438 in this conference, it mentioned that there
were currently no MIB's that Mailbus supported but this was back in
November 1995.
Has there been any updates on this topic ???
My customer is BT some it would be good to go back to them with
hopefully a positive answer.
Thanks in advance,
Mike
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| 3185.1 | another way | GENIE::DURAND | Fri May 09 1997 01:07 | 8 | |
> I have a customer asking me for the MIB's he requires on an HP Openview > platform to gather information from Mailbus. I had the same question from a customer. I gave him the hint to build a Web interface (based on CGI [and NCL commands]). He is now building a prototype. Hans-Peter | |||||
| 3185.2 | KERNEL::TALBOT | Trevor Talbot | Mon May 12 1997 14:00 | 10 | |
Hi, Mike's out this week but I have taken over the call he has on this, I'm not sure what .1 was on about - can engineering confirm one way or the other whether we support MIBs and if so which ones etc.. many thanks. Trev | |||||
| 3185.3 | CGI or MM | FORTY2::KNOWLES | Per ardua ad nauseam | Tue May 13 1997 12:51 | 18 |
No, the MAILbus 400 MTA doesn't. Whether we do in future is a matter
for conjecture. I (a tech writer) have heard no plans for MIBs.
There are two options:
o As .1 suggested, build a web interface. To elaborate a
little, a MIB-like option in the web form would map to
the appropriate NCL commands (all the requisite management
info is there already - NCL just doesn't arrange it into
blocks)
o Use MAILbus Monitor (or its younger brother, DIGITAL
Enterprise Mail Monitor, SSB 30 June , in Field Test now).
The Monitor presents all kinds of monitoring information in
a GUI. The new release extends the monitoring to Microsoft
Exchange and bundles the Motif client. For more information
hit KP7.
b
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| 3185.4 | ps | FORTY2::KNOWLES | Per ardua ad nauseam | Wed May 14 1997 19:22 | 19 |
Re-reading .-1, I think I may have given the impression that MAILbus
Monitor has MIB support; it doesn't. My reason for mentioning it is
that it gives you a GUI without the programming overhead of writing a
web interface. [I suspect, also, that Enterprise Mail Monitor is more
likely - in some, unplanned, future release - to give MIB support than
the MTA is. This is just a suspicion though.]
So, to recap, for now there are two options:
o CGI/web/NCL - real MIB support in a web forms interface,
but with a fairly significant programming overhead
o Enterprise Mail Monitor (to give it its new name) - a GUI
to provide lots of management information (which you could
perhaps configure to present its info in MIB-like chunks
- check this out in the MAILBUS_MONITOR conference).
Sorry if I raised any false hopes.
b
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