Yep. Getting something into SNMP can be a pain but it sure is nice once it
gets there.

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016, 7:16 PM Eric Kuhnke <[email protected]> wrote:

> Of course that graph is from an RRA/RRDtool, the question is how was the
> data acquired on *N* poller interval...
>
> ssh and script from the NMS server vs. snmpd and OIDs.
>
> The good thing about exposing the bind9 data via snmp OIDs is that it's
> not specific or proprietary to one type of NMS, if you want to have both a
> cacti and an opennms server watching the same thing, you can.
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Lewis Bergman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> RRD actually makes all those graphs possible
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016, 7:01 PM Eric Kuhnke <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
> IMHO putting hardcoded credentials into an NMS that allows it to ssh into
>>> a bind server is a lot more risky than usign snmpd, snmp "extend" and
>>> polling your new custom created OIDs.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Josh Baird <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Are you talking about something like this?
>>>>
>>>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>>>
>>>> You need to figure out how to get the data *out* of BIND.  Newer
>>>> versions expose a statistics channel via XML that you can use to get data
>>>> like this.  For the graph above, my NMS (Zenoss 4) SSH's into each DNS
>>>> server and executes a little custom script that I wrote which returns
>>>> Nagios-ish style data:
>>>>
>>>> OK|success=1022736319 referral=339 nxrrset=93439175 nxdomain=163271953
>>>> recursion=373732835 failure=18408551 duplicate=13564673 dropped=0
>>>> numzones=143 recursiveclients=2 rtt10=278 rtt10_100=430614909
>>>> rtt100_500=52986868 rtt500_800=75607 rtt1600=989
>>>>
>>>> Zenoss then uses this data to produce the graph that I pasted above.
>>>>
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 11:43 AM, That One Guy /sarcasm <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Im using DNSTOP to monitor real time activity on these servers I made
>>>>> live (interesting to see just how perverse some of our customers are) but
>>>>> is there a good tool for monitoring visually statistics, queries, cache,
>>>>> errors, etc that doesnt involve building yet another server to monitor
>>>>> these?
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your
>>>>> team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>

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