kern_sysctl.c interface

[Enji Cooper]

> On Mar 14, 2019, at 09:00, Alan Somers <asomers at freebsd.org> wrote:

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> This is the first time in a long time that I've read the words "snmp"
> and "future" in the same sentence.  Does anybody still use SNMP
> anymore?  Has it been supplanted yet?

Cisco and isilon do. Facebook doesn’t on their main fleet because it doesn’t provide fine grained reporting efficiently at scale and for other reasons.

Monitoring systems like Zabbix or Prometheus provide greater value in contemporary complex  systems architectures.

Thanks,
-Enji (former SNMP advocate)