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Date:      Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:07:21 -0400
From:      Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>
To:        Maxim Khitrov <mkhitrov@gmail.com>
Cc:        Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: bsnmpd vs net-snmp
Message-ID:  <49F5F459.9000403@ibctech.ca>
In-Reply-To: <26ddd1750904270928g106c8d7dg72b6b3a09ffc0afa@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <26ddd1750904270928g106c8d7dg72b6b3a09ffc0afa@mail.gmail.com>

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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.

Steve



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