UCD-MIB for bsnmpd?

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz> (from Tue, 29 Jan 2008  
20:45:30 +0100):

> Alan Amesbury wrote:
>
>> Alan Amesbury wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>> I'd like to run bsnmpd, but need the UCD-MIB for other performance
>>> monitoring.  I could run net-snmp and proxy requests through it to
>>> bsnmpd, but that strikes me as inelegant.  There's a bsnmpd-ucd module
>>> at Google
>>>
>>> 	http://bsnmp-ucd.googlecode.com/
>>>
>>>
>>> which is seems to work, except for some minor bugs in what it reports
>>> for laLoadFloat.[123].  Have any of you experience with this?  Are there
>>> plans to add it to the ports tree?
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> Since no one else responded to this thread, I'm assuming I'm the only
>> one using this feature... at least on *this* list.  :-)  For what it's
>> worth, v0.1.3 appears to work as expected.  I've been able to narrow
>> down some performance problems on one of my systems.  (It appears to be
>> dropping packets when traffic exceeds ~120Kpkts/sec, vs. its near twin
>> which seems fine at ~190Kpkts/sec).
>>
>> It'd still be nice to get bsnmp-ucd into the stock ports tree, though,
>> as I think other people might eventually benefit from it.  Should that
>> request be done through a PR?
>>
>> As always, thanks in advance!
>
> I am not using bsnmp-ucd so I will not help you with problems. If you
> want it in the ports tree, I think the best way to do it is contacting
> the author of bsnmp-ucd to ask him to do the port / submit it (by PR)
> to the official ports tree. Or you can do it your self and submit it
> and be the maintainer of the port.
> Once it hits the ports tree, it gets better attention and bugs will be
> (can be) fixed faster.

People with a strong interest in seeing this in the base system could  
also contact syrinx@ and/or harti@, as they take care about bsnmpd.

Bye,
Alexander.

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