From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 27 18:07:27 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE1191065712 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:07:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: from ibctech.ca (unknown [IPv6:2607:f118::b6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 07E3D8FC16 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:07:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 81753 invoked by uid 89); 27 Apr 2009 18:07:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?IPv6:2607:f118::5?) (steve@ibctech.ca@2607:f118::5) by 2607:f118::b6 with ESMTPA; 27 Apr 2009 18:07:53 -0000 Message-ID: <49F5F459.9000403@ibctech.ca> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:07:21 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maxim Khitrov References: <26ddd1750904270928g106c8d7dg72b6b3a09ffc0afa@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <26ddd1750904270928g106c8d7dg72b6b3a09ffc0afa@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: bsnmpd vs net-snmp X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:07:28 -0000 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