Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:39:29 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> To: Steve Polyack <korvus@comcast.net> Cc: Maxim Khitrov <mkhitrov@gmail.com>, Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: bsnmpd vs net-snmp Message-ID: <49F5FBE1.8050001@ibctech.ca> In-Reply-To: <49F5FBBF.6060207@comcast.net> References: <26ddd1750904270928g106c8d7dg72b6b3a09ffc0afa@mail.gmail.com> <49F5F459.9000403@ibctech.ca> <49F5FBBF.6060207@comcast.net>
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Steve Polyack wrote: > Steve Bertrand wrote: >> Maxim Khitrov wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I'm setting up a firewall and would like to monitor certain system >>> parameters like network, cpu, and memory usage. SNMP is an obvious >>> choice to do the monitoring and I'm planning to set up rrdtool to >>> generate graphs of captured data. The question is what SNMP agent to >>> use. I found net-snmp and bsnmpd (which is included in the base >>> system). Has anyone here used both implementations, and if so, what >>> are the basic differences? >>> >> >> I use bsnmpd, because I couldn't measure 64-bit counters otherwise. >> >> > net-snmp has no problems providing 64-bit counters (interface and > disk). You must build it with -DWITH_MFD_REWRITES (passes > --with-mfd-rewrites to ./configure). I do not know why this is not the > default. It works just fine. I also have a PR open to make this define > a ports 'make config' option (therefore a persistent setting), but the > maintainer has ignored this. I did not know this. Thanks for the heads-up! Steve
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