On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:41:06AM +0200, Sylwester S. Biernacki wrote:
> On Saturday, March 24, 2007, at 23:49:12, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > sophisticated montoring system with snmp,that is kind of an oxymoron, 
> > isn't it...
> 
> > there's no such thing as far as I am aware of.
> 
> 
> Hello Henning,
> 
>   it's not exactly what you think :P
>   I've to configure such system and typed ip of one extreme box into
>   it. After a while I saw few things which surprised me a lot:
>   1. cpu/mem - nothing special
>   2. interface status - nothing special
>   3. bgp peers configuration - oh... what a clever system, I thought
>   :P
> 
>   I clicked into it and saw that it looks after prefix count, session
>   up/downs and reachability of neighbor.
>   It's very very nice, isn't it? And I've managed to do that by few
>   clicks. When I saw that I just wanted to do the same on my bgp boxes
>   :-)
> 
>   So i've instaled that clumsy net-snmp packages, configured it out,
>   clicked into mon system and typed ip addr of openbsd box, and....
>   nothing happened - just cpu/mem and interfaces status...
> 
>   I googled around and found PF mibs and not only
>   (http://www.packetmischief.ca/openbsd/snmp/)
> 
>   Any chances to add that to the wishlist for next releases?
> 

You should create a port or net-snmp flavor of these changes. I even have
some dirty diffs to have a terse bgpctl output usable to feed into
rrdtool. I should clean them up a bit and commit it.

-- 
:wq Claudio

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