New Beholder and Tricklet, RMON and SNMP software for OS/2 and UNIX

Jan van Oorschot <Jan.vOorschot@dnpap.et.tudelft.nl> Mon, 11 January 1993 11:11 UTC

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To: rmonmib@jarthur.claremont.edu, btng@dnpap.et.tudelft.nl, snmp@psi.com
Subject: New Beholder and Tricklet, RMON and SNMP software for OS/2 and UNIX
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 10:50:45 +0100
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From: Jan van Oorschot <Jan.vOorschot@dnpap.et.tudelft.nl>

Beholder, The Next Generation (bntg)			8 january 1992

The btng package is the result of the latest work done by
the DNPAP group of the Delft University of Technology.

The btng package includes beholder.exe, an RMON compliant 
ethernet monitor for the OS/2 operating system environment.
It also includes the Tricklet package for OS/2 and UNIX. Tricklet is
a set of SNMP utilities, including a full featured Perl interface.

The OS/2 executables and documentation of btng and Tricklet 
version 2 can be found in:

	btng2exe.zip
	
The full source of the monitor and the Tricklet utilities are in:

	btng2scr.zip
	
The sources of the Tricklet utilities to be used on UNIX platforms 
are in:

	trcklt2.tar.Z
	trcklt2.zip
	
OS/2
----
You will need the following to run the OS/2 executables:

	- PC with a running OS/2 1.x or 2.x
	- ethernet network adapter
	- NDIS protocol stack
	- optional TCP/IP 1.2 from IBM for OS/2 (only used by Tricklet)

UNIX
----	
On a UNIX platform you will need an ANSI C compiler and a TCP/IP
stack with socket interface.

OS/2 development
----------------
To compile the OS/2 software, you will need:

	- microsoft C compiler 6.0 (last one with OS/2 support, thanx microsoft)
	- IBM's OS2 toolkit for OS/2 1.3
	- IBM's TCP/IP 1.2 kit



MISC
----
	- btng is distributed with source code
	- we don't ask for much, just acknowledgement of our work, 
	  bug-reports, suggestions etc.
	- the software can be obtained using anonymous ftp
	  to dnpap.et.tudelft.nl. Get the following files:
	  
	  	pub/btng/btng2exe.zip		# executables
	  	pub/btng/btng2src.zip		# full source
	  	pub/btng/trcklt2.zip		# UNIX source of Tricklet
		pub/btng/trcklt2.tar.Z		# utils.
						
		pub/btng/perl4019.zip  		# OS/2 1.3 perl
		pub/btng/perl4035.zip  		# OS/2 2.0 perl
		pub/btng/unz50x16.exe* 		# OS/2 [12].x unzip
						
	  you can also mail to our mailserver
	  
	  	mailserver@dnpap.et.tudelft.nl
				   
Now the bad news:

	- btng2 is the first (beta-like) version that hits the
	  public streets. There will be problems/bugs.
	- it is a very advanced piece of software, and you
	  can do a lot of things wrong.
	- there is documentation, but no introduction
	  for the use of SNMP and RMON monitors.
	  
We wrote this software to experiment with network managament, SNMP,
and RMON. Although the software conforms to all these standards,
it is should not be confused with commercial products. We don't give 
support, and don't ask for money and licence fees.

So use it to experiment with network management, in non-critical 
network environments.

If you are using the btng software, you are advised to join
our mailing list. 

	btng@dnpap.et.tudelft.nl	 --> mailing list
	btng-request@dnpap.et.tudelft.nl --> subscribtions/unsubscr.

You can also have a look at our gopher server at

	dnpap.et.tudelft.nl  port 70
	
Carpe Diem,

Jan

-- Ir. Jan van Oorschot.      --- Email: Jan.vOorschot@dnpap.et.tudelft.nl --
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New Beholder and Tricklet, RMON and SNMP software… Jan van Oorschot