bsnmpd vs net-snmp

[Brandon Weisz]

Maxim Khitrov wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin at citrin.ru> wrote:
>> On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:28:01 -0400, Maxim Khitrov wrote:
>> MK> I'm setting up a firewall and would like to monitor certain system
>> MK> parameters like network, cpu, and memory usage. SNMP is an obvious
>> MK> choice to do the monitoring and I'm planning to set up rrdtool to
>> MK> generate graphs of captured data. The question is what SNMP agent to
>> MK> use. I found net-snmp and bsnmpd (which is included in the base
>> MK> system). Has anyone here used both implementations, and if so, what
>> MK> are the basic differences?
>>
>> main difference is the set of supported MIBs.
>>
>> In general net-snmp supports more MIBs than bsnmpd.
>>
>> E. g. BEGEMOT-PF-MIB supported only by bsnmpd and useful for monitoring pf(4),
>> UCD-SNMP-MIB supported only by net-snmp and useful for monitoring CPU load
>> (ssCpuRaw* counters).
> 
> Is there any other documentation to bsnmpd besides the one man page?
> I'm trying to figure how to configure the daemon (first task is stop
> it from listening on *:*), but besides the man page and few comments
> in /etc/snmpd.config there is no other information that I can find.
> 
> - Max

I cant speak to the documentation, but this seems to limit it to 
listening on a single address:

Example..

# open standard SNMP ports
begemotSnmpdPortStatus.192.168.2.254.161 = 1


Regards,

Brandon

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