Thats how I did it, you may find another way, but my solution
was to send a trap to the device, capture it and start the shutdown.

p


lucian.vanghele AT bisnet DOT ro wrote:

so you mean to send back a trap to the AIX machine and not a snmpset command?

Most snmp agents include a trap handler. You would
need to check the configuration for the trap handler to
find out how to execute code when a certain trap arrives.
I have configured exactly this(as well as some firewall
rules) on my Linux router at home, so I know its possible,
and I would assume its possible on AIX, but you will have
to check the docs.

Paul


lucian.vanghele AT bisnet DOT ro wrote:

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>Hi list

>Does anyone know if it's possible to send a shutdown "command" via SNMP to

>an AIX machine? I need this because I have two redundant APC UPSs and I
>want to shutdown the machine only when both UPSs send upsOnBattery trap
>(I'll do a rls and I was thinking to run a snmpset on aix machine for
>shutdown)
>any (other) ideea?
>thanks
>Lucian
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