On Fri 12 May 2006 18:17, Paolo Lucente wrote:
> Hey Peter,
>
> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 09:13:09AM +0300, Peter Nixon wrote:
> > I would love to see an SNMP agent however so that the in memory tables
> > could be queried remotely via SNMP. This would allow trivial integration
> > with any number of SNMP graphing tools :-)
>
> That's a good point. Seems like the smooth way to this is Net-SNMP. They
> have an API and support AgentX protocol (ie. a master agent, snmpd,
> communicates with somewhat registered sub-agents - providing particular
> SNMP trees - via such protocol). That would be the state of the art
> solution (and requires a fair amount of time);

This would be the full solution...

> what is your opinion about a 
> 2-stages approach either embedding pmacct client queries in the SNMP tree
> itself (ie. SNMP part of Q9, FAQS doc) or something scriptic (ie. to
> emulate in/out interface counters) ?

Yep. This is already possible as net-snmp has the capability to call external 
scripts and return the results. I personally use this to trigger an sql query 
to the backend Postgresql database (not pmacct directly) but the effect is 
the same.

Cheers

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Peter Nixon
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