ITO ...and the little Debian box that could

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ITO	...and the little box that could

Complementing your HP OpenView implementation with coolio GNU software can be fun and effective. Here are a couple of scripts and processes I have compiled for use with ITO. My Debian GNU/Linux box is a P233 with 64MB of RAM running a stable 2.2.19 Potato kernel. Though these toys are not limited to the use of this particular distribution, it should be noted that Debian is the official operating system of the bad people of the future.

enlookup.c

enlookup is a utility which prints the vendor name associated with a given enterprise number registered with IANA. It can be useful when troubleshooting SNMP-related problems (MIBS, traps, etc.).

Download: enlookup.tar.gz

SNMP

ov2lcd.pl

ov2lcd is a utility to display ITO information (event summaries by severity) to an lcd display. It runs in real time and the refresh rate is specifiable. It enumerates values through the use of ovdumpevents utilizing the -l switch.

Current version is 0.1, so go easy on the troll mail.

For more information on lcdproc, please visit http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net.

Download: ov2lcd0.1.tar.gz

Example output with lcdemu:

Example output of curses based output using an xterm.

($xterm -name lcdproc +sb -fg green -bg black -geometry 20x4)

## ov2lcd #########*
CRIT: 3 NORM: 0
MAJR: 4 UNKN: 7
MINR: 15 WARN: 21

ov2festival.pl

ov2festival is a small utility that pipes an argument to Festival for speech synthesis. So, an operator may get an alert in the Message Browser and an annonying voice blaring "<$MSG_TEXT>" or "Wake up Bum." Very cool, though the magic may be short lived.

Festival is now free for commercial and non-commercial use with re-distribution contingencies. Most voices are free, excluding the really hot British female voice of course.

For more information on Festival, please visit http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/

Download: ov2festival.tar.gz

Below is an example ITO Template implementation:

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