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Subject: Re: bsnmpd vs net-snmp
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On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:28:01 -0400, Maxim Khitrov wrote:
MK> I'm setting up a firewall and would like to monitor certain system
MK> parameters like network, cpu, and memory usage. SNMP is an obvious
MK> choice to do the monitoring and I'm planning to set up rrdtool to
MK> generate graphs of captured data. The question is what SNMP agent to
MK> use. I found net-snmp and bsnmpd (which is included in the base
MK> system). Has anyone here used both implementations, and if so, what
MK> are the basic differences?

main difference is the set of supported MIBs.

In general net-snmp supports more MIBs than bsnmpd.

E. g. BEGEMOT-PF-MIB supported only by bsnmpd and useful for monitoring pf(4),
UCD-SNMP-MIB supported only by net-snmp and useful for monitoring CPU load
(ssCpuRaw* counters).

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 Anton Yuzhaninov