Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 03:02:00 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: SWIT <mark@s-wit.net> Cc: freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: monitoring with mrtg Message-ID: <20031129020200.GF815@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <010501c3b611$84fda320$0100000a@Biggie> References: <010501c3b611$84fda320$0100000a@Biggie>
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On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 07:41:22PM -0500, SWIT wrote: > Hello, > newbie and its the holiiday so be nice or santa will poop in your stocking > :-) > > I am interested in monitoring my freebsd box with MRTG/rrdtool. > > I have the mrtg/rddtool setup on the box. > I can get to my devices w/o any issues and graph. > Not sure on the freebsd box tho > I have RTFM and other sites. > In reading I sounds like I needed ucd-snmp but its not there. So I searched > more and found out its now net-snmp > So I installed from ports. but its say libnet is wrong version tho its > updated. So had to reinstall libnet. > So now I have net-snmp. > I ran snmpd and it asks a whole lot of questions. I answered them. > But i get errors and snmpd doesn' start. mostly says blank lines. > Now when Answering the questions I did not answer every question. Like those > on snmp3 related. and mabye a few others. > Does every thing need to be answered ? No it will work fine without. > And the warning at the end of the install scares me about security and all > that. Don't be worried to much. There a lot of appication that give this warning. If you have a firewall (configured the rigth way), update your source + applications + FreeBSD system one ine wil and maybe even have a virus scanner chances are nothing going to happen to you. > any good net-snmp newbie setup docs ? sites ? any other ways easier to do > this ? > The mrtg site has nothing related to freebsd. My first setup was with a randum example. You don't realy need something related to freebsd. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/
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