Wednesday, April 3, 2013

When SNMP operation fails - Factors to check

When SNMP operation fails, the factors to check would be:

1. Check if ping to the destination succeeds - if yes...
2. Check if the right version of SNMP is used by manager and agent - if yes...
3. Check if any ACL (Access Control List) is configured - if no..
4.  Check if the OID is a vaild one - if yes...
5. Check if snmp service is running in manager and agent

Types Of Web services

The types of web services available are:

1. SOAP based
2. Restful
Each web service has its own advantage and disadvantage and has to be used according to the requirement

How To Find The IP Address Of A Web Page

The ip addres address of a web page can be easily found my entering into the command prompt on a windows machine and typing the following command.

ping <website name>

eg:
ping google.com

With output
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C:\Users\kanbaras>ping google.com

Pinging google.com [173.194.38.166] with 32 bytes of da
Reply from 173.194.38.166: bytes=32 time=126ms TTL=51
Reply from 173.194.38.166: bytes=32 time=46ms TTL=52
Reply from 173.194.38.166: bytes=32 time=86ms TTL=52
Reply from 173.194.38.166: bytes=32 time=42ms TTL=51

Here 173.194.38.166 is the ip address of google.com