Am Sa, den 20.08.2005 schrieb Timothy Murphy um 23:37:
I've been looking (not very hard) at RRD (round-robin database),
and I notice that several examples displaying things like memory usage
use snmp (more precisely snmpwalk) to gather the information.
I'm just wondering if this still makes sense.
Most of the information seems to be available in /proc ,
and I wondered if it is just conservatism
that leads people to keep on with snmp ?
Timothy Murphy
Programming with SNMP you get a wider range of network device's
information than just by systems having a /proc partition (like Linux;
on BSD /proc often isn't even mounted for security reasons).
Alexander
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