From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 28 18:02:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A93B716A4CE for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 18:02:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp09.wxs.nl (smtp09.wxs.nl [195.121.6.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A985C43FE9 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 18:02:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from akruijff@www.kruijff.org) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp09.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HP3000B5C7O7G@smtp09.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 02:59:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from Alex.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kruij557.speed.planet.nl (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAT223cP005128; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 03:02:03 +0100 (CET envelope-from akruijff@Alex.lan) Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by Alex.lan (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id hAT220Nn005127; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 03:02:00 +0100 (CET envelope-from akruijff) Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 03:02:00 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <010501c3b611$84fda320$0100000a@Biggie> To: SWIT Message-id: <20031129020200.GF815@dds.nl> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i References: <010501c3b611$84fda320$0100000a@Biggie> cc: freebsd Subject: Re: monitoring with mrtg X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 02:02:08 -0000 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/