Re: SNMP and APC rack power distribution units

[Matthieu Bec <mbec@gemini.edu>]

Hi Elliot,

We use a different brand (pulizzi). At the time, I found about devSnmp 
but that only had read capabilities. In my case I needed to control the 
unit - from a vxWorks IOC.
The pulizzi come with secure http (not very friendly to implement), a 
serial port with intricate layers of menus (gave up on that), and snmp. 
I couldn't find any obvious snmp client for vxworks, so I ran a network 
sniffer, looked at how the packets were formed and wrote a simple udp 
socket client routine invoked from SNL. So far it has worked well.

Regards
Matthieu



On 06/24/10 09:06, Elliott Wolin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We're thinking of using APC Ethernet-controllable rack power
> distribution units. One of the many ways you can talk to them is via SNMP.
> Has anyone used these or similar units? And what is the status of EPICS
> communicating via SNMP?
>
> Thanks,


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