Rsa

Today, after a short break (you can call it break, I think), I sat down and looked at the IBM RSA II adapter’s remote management GUI and it’s trouble with JRE versions. Ever since the last Java updates, I was unable to access the RSA console because Java would throw an error like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Initializing RemoteDisk v2.2 MCS v.3.6 initialized Established connection to rsa.home.barfoo.org:1045 Connected via socket: Socket[addr=rsa.home.barfoo.org/10.0.0.150,port=2000,localport=4292] Closing socket java.lang.NullPointerException at mcsClient.Row.isValid(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Component.invalidateIfValid(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Component.setLocale(Unknown Source) at javax.swing.JComponent.(Unknown Source) at javax.swing.JPanel.(Unknown Source) at javax.swing.JPanel.(Unknown Source) at javax.swing.JPanel.(Unknown Source) at mcsClient.Row.(Unknown Source) at mcsClient.Options.(Unknown Source) at mcsClient.McsToolBar.(Unknown Source) at mcsClient.McsClient.begin(Unknown Source) at mcsClient.McsClient.init(Unknown Source) at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2Manager$AppletExecutionRunnable.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Ausnahme: java.lang.NullPointerException In the end, I downloaded every version since JRE 1.5.0.11 (that is 20 different versions ❗), as wittnessed by Michael Ellerbeck that the last working version for him was JRE 1.5.0.11, and gave each one a try (since I want to report the issue to IBM, so that they gonna release a fix sometime soon). ...

If you remember back to July, I looked into some troubles I had with the IBM RSA II adapter’s Java interface and the latest JRE updates. I just noticed, that IBM released a new firmware yesterday for the RSA. The ChangeLog states this: Version 1.13, GFEP35A Problem(s) Fixed: * Suggested o Fix for Remote Control General Exception in JRE 1.6 update 12 and above. o Corrected a problem that DHCP renew/release may fail after a long time. o Corrected a problem that remote control preference link disapears after creating new key buttons. o Corrected a problem that cause event number shows only from 0 to 255 when views RSA log via telnet session. ...

Well, after some poking around I finally found some OID’s for the RSA’s (only through these two links: check_rsa_fan and check_rsa_temp). For Nagios, I dismissed the fans, since the fan speed is only passed on in percent values. So I only added this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 define hostgroup{ hostgroup_name rsa-snmp alias Remote Supervisor Adapter (allowing SNMP connections) } define service{ use generic-perfdata check_command check_rsa_snmpv1_public!.1.3.6.1.4.1.2.3.51.1.2.1.2.1.1!45!60!°C!Temperature CPU0! hostgroup_name rsa-snmp service_description TEMP CPU0 } define service{ use generic-perfdata check_command check_rsa_snmpv1_public!.1.3.6.1.4.1.2.3.51.1.2.1.2.2.1!45!60!°C!Temperature CPU1! hostgroup_name rsa-snmp service_description TEMP CPU1 } define service{ use generic-perfdata check_command check_rsa_snmpv1_public!.1.3.6.1.4.1.2.3.51.1.2.1.5.1.0!29!35!°C!Temperature Ambient! hostgroup_name rsa-snmp service_description TEMP AMBIENT } Oh, and if anyone else is curious like me, here’s the list with the OID’s, courtesy of Gerhard Gschlad and Leonardo Calamai. ...