From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 2 20:52:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BE7216A41C; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 20:52:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from philip@paeps.cx) Received: from gateway.nixsys.be (gateway.nixsys.be [195.144.77.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9815A43D49; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 20:52:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from philip@paeps.cx) Received: from wotan.home.paeps.cx (wotan.home.paeps.cx [IPv6:2001:838:37f:10:a00:20ff:fe9b:138c]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "wotan.home.paeps.cx", Issuer "NixSys CA" (verified OK)) by gateway.nixsys.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4FFEC128; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 22:52:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fasolt.home.paeps.cx (fasolt.home.paeps.cx [IPv6:2001:838:37f:10:20a:e6ff:fe7d:c08]) by wotan.home.paeps.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62F776199; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 22:52:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fasolt.home.paeps.cx (philip@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fasolt.home.paeps.cx (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j52KqZpt058088; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 22:52:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from philip@fasolt.home.paeps.cx) Received: (from philip@localhost) by fasolt.home.paeps.cx (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j52KqYmK058087; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 22:52:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from philip) Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 22:52:34 +0200 From: Philip Paeps To: Patrick Tracanelli Message-ID: <20050602205234.GE81182@fasolt.home.paeps.cx> Mail-Followup-To: Patrick Tracanelli , Robert Watson , Murray Stokely , Harti Brandt , cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Gleb Smirnoff , doc-committers@FreeBSD.org 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <429F50AB.4010106@freebsdbrasil.com.br> X-Date-in-Rome: ante diem IV Nonas Iunias MMDCCLVIII ab Urbe Condida X-PGP-Fingerprint: FA74 3C27 91A6 79D5 F6D3 FC53 BF4B D0E6 049D B879 X-Message-Flag: Get a proper mailclient! Organization: Happily Disorganized User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: Murray Stokely , Harti Brandt , cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Gleb Smirnoff , Robert Watson , doc-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en/projects summerofcode.sgml X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 20:52:41 -0000 On 2005-06-02 15:32:11 (-0300), Patrick Tracanelli 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