Vince, i usually run snmpwalk against the remote node to verify whether or not
SNMP is running...  of couse you may run into problems with community names etc.

jason






Vince Rosso <Vince_Rosso AT TRANSALTA DOT COM> on 07/21/99 12:59:50 PM

Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
      <NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU>

To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU
cc:    (bcc: Jason Kravitz/Tivoli Systems)
Subject:  SNMP Monitoring





Vince Rosso@TRANSALTA
21/07/99 10:59 AM

We are running  v5.1.1 Netview on Digital UNIX v4.0d.  We are trying to
find a way to check if an SNMP agent is running on a device.   Often times
the device is pingable but the SNMP agent has failed which doesn't allow
for data collection or trap generation from the device.   Is there a way
for Netview to check for SNMP running on  nodes and if it isn't then
generate a trap so that it can be dealt with.  Thanks!