Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 22:52:34 +0200 From: Philip Paeps <philip@FreeBSD.org> To: Patrick Tracanelli <eksffa@freebsdbrasil.com.br> Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>, Harti Brandt <harti@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, doc-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en/projects summerofcode.sgml Message-ID: <20050602205234.GE81182@fasolt.home.paeps.cx> In-Reply-To: <429F50AB.4010106@freebsdbrasil.com.br> References: <200506021252.j52Cqfkl048746@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050602130847.GB64196@cell.sick.ru> <20050602153312.X21266@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> <20050602172837.A29372@fledge.watson.org> <429F50AB.4010106@freebsdbrasil.com.br>
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On 2005-06-02 15:32:11 (-0300), Patrick Tracanelli <eksffa@freebsdbrasil.com.br> wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: > > Expanding the support for SNMP monitoring of FreeBSD systems using our > > native SNMP pieces is something I've had on my "Someday" todo list for > > ages. I'd really like to see this happen (hence adding it to Murray's > > list :-). Being able to claim that FreeBSD can be monitored out of the > > box using SNMP (assuming an admin twiddle is set) would be quite useful > > from a "make your embedded X out of FreeBSD" perspective. Especially if > > it were easy to say "Let the interfaces be monitored", "Let the VM system > > be monitored", "Let users be monitored" as configurable items so (for > > example) firewall vendors could enable network interface monitoring but > > not user monitoring. > > For embedded systems it would also be great if the native snmp could monitor > ipfw pkts/bytes accounting just like an existing MIB/patch for ucd-snmp do; > Would be even better if it could monitor PF accounting too. I commited snmp_pf a while ago, and I'm currently working on ipfilter and ipfw modules too. A while ago, I also looked into what it would take to write a generic interface for monitoring any firewall, but I gave up on that idea. *g* > Today we work hard to fit ucd-snmp in a 32MB flash card using TinyBSD > (www.tinybsd.org) just because of this patch instead of contrib/'s bsnmp. ucd-snmp alone is more than 32M on some setups :-) - Philip -- Philip Paeps Please don't Cc me, I am philip@freebsd.org subscribed to the list. You're all clear now, kid. Now blow this thing so we can all go home. -- Han Solo
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