cvs commit: www/en/projects summerofcode.sgml

[Gleb Smirnoff]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 03:32:11PM -0300, Patrick Tracanelli wrote:
P> Robert Watson wrote:
P> >
P> >On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Harti Brandt wrote:
P> >
P> >>On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
P> >>
P> >>GS>On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 12:52:40PM +0000, Murray Stokely wrote:
P> >>GS>M>   Modified files:
P> >>GS>M>     en/projects          summerofcode.sgml
P> >>GS>M>   Log:
P> >>GS>M>   Add more detail to BSNMP item.  List Philip Paeps and Robert 
P> >>Watson as
P> >>GS>M>   coordinators.
P> >>GS>
P> >>GS>Why isn't Hartmut here? I'd also like to be Cc'ed to BSNMP ideas,
P> >>GS>although I can't promise a lot of activity on this. Is it possible?
P> >>
P> >>Hey, great idea. I wasn't reading this thread (kind of overload 
P> >>condition). Surely I can help out with mentoring/co-ordination. The 
P> >>only problem beeing that I'll be out of reachability for August (no 
P> >>connectivity in a small siberian town :-).
P> >
P> >
P> >Expanding the support for SNMP monitoring of FreeBSD systems using our 
P> >native SNMP pieces is something I've had on my "Someday" todo list for 
P> >ages.  I'd really like to see this happen (hence adding it to Murray's 
P> >list :-).  Being able to claim that FreeBSD can be monitored out of the 
P> >box using SNMP (assuming an admin twiddle is set) would be quite useful 
P> >from a "make your embedded X out of FreeBSD" perspective.  Especially if 
P> >it were easy to say "Let the interfaces be monitored", "Let the VM 
P> >system be monitored", "Let users be monitored" as configurable items so 
P> >(for example) firewall vendors could enable network interface monitoring 
P> >but not user monitoring.
P> >
P> >Robert N M Watson
P> 
P> For embedded systems it would also be great if the native snmp could 
P> monitor ipfw pkts/bytes accounting just like an existing MIB/patch for 
P> ucd-snmp do; Would be even better if it could monitor PF accounting too. 
P>  Today we work hard to fit ucd-snmp in a 32MB flash card using TinyBSD 
P> (www.tinybsd.org) just because of this patch instead of contrib/'s 
P> bsnmp. This snmp thing along with the firewall accounting MIBs is 
P> specially interesting for embedded wireless systems.

We already have module for pf(4) monitoring.

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