I think this would make a great project as monitoring for Solaris has pretty much been left to 3rd party tools by Sun. That's okay in corporate environments where people spend money on one tool for everything. However, if Solaris/OpenSolaris came with all the MIBs out the box, that would probably help everyone across the board. As to which community it should be run under, the Observability Community might be appropriate. But I also think we should participate and perhaps do a peer review and be a source of testing. The MIBs should work with Net-SNMP, but we need folks to test them with other products out there and show that it's re-usable. Doing that will earn a lot of street credit and make this a key component going forward.
On a side note, does anyone here use webmin on Solaris or OpenSolaris? I'm curious if that is being maintained and enhanced. I haven't used it in a while. But I think since we're on the topic of having good monitoring that we need good management tools for SA's and NOC type of environments. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com E-Mail: [email protected] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: Ben Rockwood <[email protected]> To: Jason King <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Saturday, February 7, 2009 9:43:09 PM Subject: Re: [sysadmin-discuss] [perf-discuss] Project Proposal: Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris Jason King wrote: > What I wanted to do initially was expose the data used by vmstat, > mpstat, and fsstat -- I think the data being exposed is stable enough > that we could do that. Possibly also include some ZFS arc data as > well. > All of these are simple kstats. For fsstat data you will likely want to wrap it a bit to expose based on the filesystem name rather than fs_id. The primary reason I suggest a kstat passthrough is that I'm pushing to get more ZFS data available via kstat... but if the MIB even was a wrapper around select kstats, it could be implemented in such a way that addition of additional data would be straight forward to anyone who had a specific need. > I have an initial stab at a MIB that I wrote up Friday I could post > this week (for discussion) if you think that would be useful, but I > didn't want to get too deep into implementation for the discussion. > I would love to participate in this where I can. I've spent a lot of time working with Net-SNMP but I admit that I've never really figured out how to implement a MIB. If you've got a working model I'd be extremely interested in filling in my learning gap. I am curious though, if this became a project would it not be best a project of the Observability Community? benr. _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss
