Its more because I am using HP Openview and I'd like to be able to either
poll for the hardware component status (that most of my components are still
running, even the redundant power supplies). Thus, I had assumed (wrongly)
that the hassle free method was to install SMC which would have its own snmp
agents and then pass the mib to HpOpenview.
I dont think my peers would agree to an OS change or upgrade. Thus, I am
limited to superficial amendments. Given that the status of power supplies
and scsi disks arent necessarily found in syslogs or /var/admin, I suppose
another way may be to run ./explorer and the grep for the values in my
explorer output using perl. Not a very intelligent way to go about it
though.

Anyway after reading the documentation on SMC3.0, it seems to me that there
may not be an actual "hardware" mib that I can parse to my NMS.

Ps. Does anyone know of HPopenview compatibility issues with solaris? Not
all my mibs work, but I'd like to think that the mibs I am using conform
pretty much to the RFCs.

regards, Veni
inveni@hotmail.com