a tkined tool for managing HP hubs.

Doug Hughes (Doug.Hughes@Eng.Auburn.EDU)
Tue, 19 Sep 1995 16:26:05 -0500

We have a bunch of HP Advance Stack hubs that I had just been dying
to get some SNMP information out of. One day, I had some time and through
something together using scotty/scwish. The results is a tool that
extracts all kinds of useful information out of HP hubs and displays
it in a nice window in a tabular form that is easy to read and highlights
changes in yellow or red (depending on severity).

displayed:
port number, MAC address, total frames, total octets, media available status,
operational status, administrative status, media errors, alignment errors,
total errors, giant frames, runt frames, collisions, partitioned state,
Jabbers, polarity (reversed or normal), intruder (haven't found a use
for this yet since we don't have security turned on), frames per second, and
collisions as a percentage of frames sent.

It has a user-configurable update interval, but defaults to 5 minutes.

I've submitted it to Juergen for inclusion in scotty, and it's also
available via ftp from:
ftp://ftp.eng.auburn.edu/pub/doug/hphub.tar.gz

requires scotty-2.0.0 or higher, tcl/tk 7.4/4.0 or higher.

So far it has allowed us to track down one clogged subnet, one bad
10Base-T cable (excessive media errors - was actually a flat ribbon
cable somebody stuck in) and one port with reversed polarity in the
transmit pair.

Doug Hughes Engineering Network Services
doug@eng.auburn.edu Auburn University