Veni,

> But without smc or Symon, how would you grep for critical events then
> if all not such events are logged?

I think it ends up being that Sun and it's engineers are always going
to know more about their hardware than anybody else, and the ways they
query the status of that hardware aren't neccessarily going to be made
public. But you're approach is still going to get you quite a bit of
the info you want.

SunMC gives you all this info, in software that is free, and is
supported for all new Sun gear and Sun OS's. So I don't understand why
you wouldn't use it? Or is this more of a learn-how-SNMP-works
project?

Also, have you looked at Solaris 10 yet? From what I've heard it will
have some sort of "predictive self-healing" daemon on every machine...
so maybe the events that it actions on will be wide open for you to
read? That may make things easier.

Regards,

Mike