Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:49:37 -0400 From: Maxim Khitrov <mkhitrov@gmail.com> To: Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin@citrin.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsnmpd vs net-snmp Message-ID: <26ddd1750904291049s22eb912dg81a105e5f783f44@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <gt4svl$2ot$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <26ddd1750904270928g106c8d7dg72b6b3a09ffc0afa@mail.gmail.com> <gt4svl$2ot$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin@citrin.ru> wrote: > 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). Is there any other documentation to bsnmpd besides the one man page? I'm trying to figure how to configure the daemon (first task is stop it from listening on *:*), but besides the man page and few comments in /etc/snmpd.config there is no other information that I can find. - Max
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