bsnmpd vs net-snmp

Steve Bertrand steve at ibctech.ca
Mon Apr 27 18:07:28 UTC 2009


Maxim Khitrov wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm setting up a firewall and would like to monitor certain system
> parameters like network, cpu, and memory usage. SNMP is an obvious
> choice to do the monitoring and I'm planning to set up rrdtool to
> generate graphs of captured data. The question is what SNMP agent to
> use. I found net-snmp and bsnmpd (which is included in the base
> system). Has anyone here used both implementations, and if so, what
> are the basic differences?

I use bsnmpd, because I couldn't measure 64-bit counters otherwise.

Steve


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