First of all I would like just to thank developers of OpenBSD for a great Simple Network Management Protocol daemon and its integration with OpenBSD built in sensors framework. With minimal required editing of /etc/snmpd.conf. I was easily able to pool more info from my OpenBSD servers from Observium, network observation and monitoring system than from any of my fancy Red Hat rigs which also required additional configuration of lm_sensors daemon. I am using v2c and public community.
I have quick question about SNMPv3 USM with authentication. After reading man pages for snmpd.conf it is not clear to me if I am suppose to use md5/sha hashes or plain text words for "password123" and enckey "321drowssap" in /etc/snmpd.conf file. Every time I tried to force Observium to use auth SNMPv3 it complained about credentials. This very well might be Observium issue as they very clearly state that the whole world should be using Ubuntu or Debian in the worse case and we all know how well those people read RFC. By the way if people wonder I collectd from ports also works like a charm and I have no problem reporting metric to the same remote collectd server which runs Observium. Observium has no problems displaying collectd graphs but I have tested only default plugins. Yesterday I found a problem with RRD graphs generated from rrd data which came out of users plugin on Red Hat boxes. Is there a way to start collectd daemon as a non privileged user from rc.conf.local rather than sudo -u _collectd /usr/local/sbin/collectd as indicated in the installation message. Cheers, Predrag P.S. I noticed long awaited update for collectd port and I will try to set some time to test that thing. It is also very sad that Observium developers have such a distaste for everything not Ubuntu as I would prefer to run Observium on OpenBSD box rather than TurnKey appliance which I am doing right now.
