remote monitoring system variables?

Matthew Seaman matthew at cryptosphere.com
Wed May 19 03:18:53 PDT 2004


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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