Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:19:33 +0000 (UTC) From: Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin@citrin.ru> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsnmpd vs net-snmp Message-ID: <gt4svl$2ot$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <26ddd1750904270928g106c8d7dg72b6b3a09ffc0afa@mail.gmail.com>
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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). -- Anton Yuzhaninov
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