From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 27 02:06:22 2010 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 008A1106566B for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:06:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: from smtp.ibctech.ca (v6.ibctech.ca [IPv6:2607:f118::b6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CCA68FC1F for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:06:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 40564 invoked by uid 89); 27 Jan 2010 02:07:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.114?) (steve@ibctech.ca@::ffff:208.70.104.100) by ::ffff:208.70.104.210 with ESMTPA; 27 Jan 2010 02:07:40 -0000 Message-ID: <4B5F9F96.1050404@ibctech.ca> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:06:14 -0500 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Friedrich References: <201001262020.45317.freebsd@insightbb.com> <4B5F9584.5020600@ibctech.ca> <201001262045.37400.freebsd@insightbb.com> In-Reply-To: <201001262045.37400.freebsd@insightbb.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SNMP of FreeBSD 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: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:06:22 -0000 Steven Friedrich wrote: > I want to find out what I can monitor with it. I don't know enough about it > to know if it will be useful to me. I'm an old hardware guy and I've been > Admin'ing my own systems for many years. I am having a hard time finding > pertinent documentation. > > I know one of the ports allows you to monitor the cpu, memory, etc. > > I already have a Superkaramba theme that has a StarTrek gauge for cpu, memory, > swap, network in, network out, etc. > > I just want to know if SNMP has anything to offer me... ...out of curiosity, are you simply trying to gain info on your local machine that you are working from? I use SNMP for network management, so I assumed that from the beginning. If what you are looking for is gathering stats from only the hardware that you are working on, that is a bit of a different story. With that said, I may be able to provide configs for that, too. Steve