remote monitoring system variables?

[Stephen P. Cravey]

Fortunately, this is for data analysis and not administration. As such,
I only need read access to this data. I would consider write access a
serious security problem. :)

Thanks.

-Stephen

On Wed, 19 May 2004 11:18:20 +0100
Matthew Seaman <matthew at cryptosphere.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 04:20:39PM -0500, Stephen P. Cravey wrote:
> > I was afraid of that. I'll look more closely into the SNMP MIBS to
> > see how much of what I need is available. The Issue I have with
> > scripting SNMP is that the OID numbers for custom scrips seem to be
> > dependant on how many scripts you are running. I'll verify that, but
> > it looks like I may be writing some code to handle encrypted (or at
> > least obfuscated) transmission of sysctl and ipfw data over an
> > authenticated network connection.
> 
> Never could decide myself if the concept of read/write access to the
> sysctl MIB tree via SNMP was "way cool" or "run away, screaming!"
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
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