SNMP Polling Support

Thanks for the explanation, Henrik.  I thought it might not be for public consumption, but configure set it up to
be built in the makefile so I figured I'd ask.

...and thanks for continuing to share xymon.  It is pretty stunning.

-dan

-----Original Message-----
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Henrik Størner
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 4:24 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] SNMP Polling Support

On 08-09-2011 18:25, Dan Smith wrote:

Two things
1) Does anyone know what the xymon-snmpcollect code is for?

Yes, I wrote the code so I would know ...

2) If it is either not used now or not ready for "prime time", it > might be a good idea to put a comment in the code or add something to > the web site that says that it's not available.

It is part of the distribution (although you could argue it shouldn't be), because Xymon is "my" tool. So sometimes I add stuff which I use, but where the design might not be entirely thought through. Meaning things may change and I may break stuff, so I don't want too many people relying on it working in any specific way.

xymon-snmpcollect is such a tool. It was written because I needed something to collect traffic statistics from a lot of switches, and I was worried if devmon could handle the load. It turns out that the approach I took when writing xymon-snmpcollect wasn't very good - it collects far too much data, and it is problematic pushing such large messages into Xymon. So the design of that tool should be thought through again, and maybe I should just give up on it and figure out how to use devmon for the job.


Regards,
Henrik