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[Philip Paeps]

On 2005-06-02 15:32:11 (-0300), Patrick Tracanelli <eksffa at freebsdbrasil.com.br> wrote:
> Robert Watson wrote:
> > Expanding the support for SNMP monitoring of FreeBSD systems using our
> > native SNMP pieces is something I've had on my "Someday" todo list for
> > ages.  I'd really like to see this happen (hence adding it to Murray's
> > list :-).  Being able to claim that FreeBSD can be monitored out of the
> > box using SNMP (assuming an admin twiddle is set) would be quite useful
> > from a "make your embedded X out of FreeBSD" perspective.  Especially if
> > it were easy to say "Let the interfaces be monitored", "Let the VM system
> > be monitored", "Let users be monitored" as configurable items so (for
> > example) firewall vendors could enable network interface monitoring but
> > not user monitoring.
> 
> For embedded systems it would also be great if the native snmp could monitor
> ipfw pkts/bytes accounting just like an existing MIB/patch for ucd-snmp do;
> Would be even better if it could monitor PF accounting too. 

I commited snmp_pf a while ago, and I'm currently working on ipfilter and ipfw
modules too.  A while ago, I also looked into what it would take to write a
generic interface for monitoring any firewall, but I gave up on that idea. *g*

> Today we work hard to fit ucd-snmp in a 32MB flash card using TinyBSD
> (www.tinybsd.org) just because of this patch instead of contrib/'s bsnmp.

ucd-snmp alone is more than 32M on some setups :-) 

 - Philip

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