Question about parsing snmp output.

[Bob Chiodini]

On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 12:17 +0900, Naoki wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a number of FC boxes and all with snmp enabled. Does anybody know
> of a nice script that will take the full SNMP dump and parse it to show
> the packages installed, version, and install date?
> 
> It would make life easier when scanning a number of servers to see what
> packages are installed/need updates etc.
> 
> There are many apps which will poll SNMP for traffic and performance
> metrics but nothing I've found so far will report or track system
> details. Would be really nice to troll through data on a server
> regarding it's configuration history.
> 

Last time I looked the default configuration for snmpd did not contain
any MIB information for the installed packages.  Has this changed?

Wouldn't ssh be better suited to this kind of query?

Bob...