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Author Topic: BARCO Simple Network Management Protocol Eric Robinson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 538 From: Santa Rosa, CA Registered: Jan 2005 posted 03-25-2010 11:08 AM                     I was reading about the BARCO Simple Network Management Protocol for DP2000's on the Barco website document: "...WhitePaper/TDE4131_00_whitepaper.pdf" I can not provide a link because you have to log into Barco to access this. This looks like an interesting interface to monitor projector parameters. One could set up a monitoring program to email someone when one of the parameters falls outside of its limits or when one of the failure events is set. Has anyone here used this? I'm looking for some help with setting this up.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-25-2010 11:41 AM                        It would be fairly easy to monitor this with standard monitoring software (almost everything understands SNMP now). I use and recommend Nagios (formerly known as "Netsaint"), but there are other options as well. HP Openview is expensive, but is the standard commercial industrial-strength option.  |  IP: Logged Eric Robinson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 538 From: Santa Rosa, CA Registered: Jan 2005 posted 03-25-2010 01:16 PM                     Hello Scott, I checked out Nagois and it looks like it would work well with Linux. I don't have a Linux machine yet, but I have been contemplating building one up. Are you a Linux user?  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-25-2010 01:53 PM                        I do this sort of thing at my day job (film stuff is a hobby). Nagios runs fine on Linux, Solaris, BSD, and most other Unix variants. It probably works on Windows, too. Setup is a bit of a bear, but it runs well once configured. It is not resource intensive and runs fine on older hardware. If anyone has a machine running any of the above operating systems on a network that can talk to one of the projectors, and can give me ssh access and a copy of the SNMP documentation, let me know. I'd be willing to try to set this up if we could then post the configuration here for others to use. (If anyone is interested, send me email and we'll discuss setup and security implications.)  |  IP: Logged Eric Robinson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 538 From: Santa Rosa, CA Registered: Jan 2005 posted 03-25-2010 02:20 PM                     I may have a Linux machine and the Barco connection setup in 3 weeks. I'll get back to you. Sounds like fun!  |  IP: Logged

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