On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Federico Lucifredi wrote:
I could try to list the horrors of past versions of SNMP, but Chris seems much more of an expert in it so I will pass the honor and go to bed instead. ZZZZzzzzz....
:-)
Well, no, not an expert as such, I was mainly just summarizing examples from Appendix E of _Perl for System Administrators_, as people don't seem to have dashed out & bought copies since I brought up SNMP in my first response to this thread so I figured I may as well belabor the point so that it wasn't misunderstood this time around :-)
But we do use an awful lot of SNMP at work. I'm not the one that set any of it up, but I'm impressed at how with a few simple tools -- Mon, MRTG, and some not necessarily very sophisticated home-grown stuff -- you can automatically be on top of everything that is going on with every device on your network, in as much detail as you'd like. The hard part usually isn't extracting the data you need, but in managing the flood of it in the form of hundreds or thousands of emails per day.
If you have such systems in place, adding in a hook to monitor memory usage on all these devices comes surprisingly close to trivial.
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