[ READ-ME-FIRST - Thu Mar  8 00:09:46 1990 - notes on SNMP+gawk - /mtr ]


0.   You should already have installed the 4BSD/ISODE SNMP software.

1.   Get a copy of GNU Awk 2.11 Beta.  Extract the gawk-2.11/ hierarchy
     into this directory.

2.   Apply the patches to the sources by

	% patch -p < GAWK-PATCHES

3.   Follow the instructions in the README file to configure gawk.

4.   If your $(INCDIR) is not /usr/include, then add

	-I$(INCDIR)

     to the "FLAGS=" definition in the Makefile.

5.   Type 

	% make

     to generate gawk.

6.   As the super-user copy gawk to $(BINDIR) and create the directory
     /usr/local/lib/awk.

7.   At this point you should be able to do a trivial test:

	% gawk -f s-netstat/mib.system

     which will contact your local SNMP agent using the default
     community and ask for information from the system group.  The
     output looks something like this:

	agent cheetah.nyser.net
	   running: 4BSD/ISODE SNMP
	            (1.3.6.1.4.1.4.1.2.1)
	  services: applications, end-to-end
	  location: upstairs machine room
	   contact: Marshall Rose <mrose@nisc.nyser.net>
	    uptime: 5 days, 17 hours, 24 minutes, 37.69 seconds

8.   Now you can install the one application supplied, s-netstat.  You
     might want to call it some other name.  To install it:

	# cp s-netstat/s-netstat.sh $(BINDIR)s-netstat
	# cp s-netstat/mib.* /usr/local/lib/awk

     The s-netstat application is like the netstat program, but uses the
     SNMP rather than kmem to get information.  The following switches
     are implemented:

	-a	show all connections
	-s	show statistical information
	-m	show mbuf information
	-i	show interface information
	-r	show routing information

     Here are new switches:

	-z	show address translation (ARP) information

	-Z	show system information

	-e	show EGP information

	-o	show OSI information in addition to Internet information
		(this modifies the -i, -s, -r, and -z switches)

     As you might imagine, the syntax is:

	s-netstat [switches] [agent [community]]