SNMP recording and browsing tool

Thu Oct 10 00:57:53 UTC 1996

I'd like to announce the release of a new network analysis tool,
the SNMP Vulture (http://www.vix.com/vulture). Vulture is a set of
utilities to collect and store SNMP data and browse it in an
interactive fashion (using any web browser). The result is a tool
that can give you a good grasp of what a large network is doing.

Here's a bit of the main man page:

VULTURE(1)                 VULTURE                 VULTURE(1)

NAME
       vulture  -  collect a round of snmp based on configuration
       files

SYNOPSIS
       vulture [-dhv]

DESCRIPTION
       Vulture collects SNMP data and stores it in a hierarchy of
       log  files.  It determines what data to collect based on a
       configuration file that in turn relies on a series of SNMP
       template files to determine which objects need to be col-
       lected for each entry in the configuration file.

       When invoked, vulture will collect a single  set of  data
       and  store  it  in the log files. This is not very useful,
       and vulture is almost never invoked this way. This is usu-
       ally  only necessary while debugging changes to configura-
       tion or template files.

       Vulture collects its data in a two pass operation where it
       first  sizes  up the  tables  involved, and then requests
       entire tables of relevant information.  This is  an  effi-
       cient  process,  since it knows which objects it needs out
       of given tables, based on the information in it's template
       files.

       All  data  that  can  be directly matched against the net-
       work.desc file are placed into the regular log files. Data
       for  interfaces  that  are  not listed in the network.desc
       file are placed in a parallel set of  discard  log  files.
       These data are usually discarded much earlier than regular
       data.