Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:54:52 +0200 From: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin@citrin.ru> Subject: Re: bsnmpd vs net-snmp Message-ID: <200904280854.53179.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> 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 Monday 27 April 2009 20:19:33 Anton Yuzhaninov 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). There is the GoC 2008 project: % cat /usr/ports/net-mgmt/bsnmp-ucd/pkg-descr bsnmp-ucd is a module for bsnmpd which allows you to get memory, load average, cpu utilization and other system statistics. It implements parts of UCD-SNMP-MIB for this. WWW: http://bsnmp-ucd.googlecode.com/ Author: Mikolaj Golub <to.my.trociny@gmail.com> Maybe if more people started testing/using this, it could some day be in base. -- Mel
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