On 1/5/08, Stephen L Johnson wrote:
From
a developer point of view, SNMP is good for network related data
gathers. For system monitoring, I avoid SMNP agents. The problem is no
consistency. I've works with most every flavor of UNIX under the sun. It
seems that every vendor implement the Host MIB in their own way, or in
an entirely different location in the tree (HPUX).
That's where I like to implement a standard SNMP agent (e.g., NetSNMP) across all possible platforms, so that you get that consistency.
If you choose, you can then augment that information with a platform-specific agent, but then you'll need to adapt the monitoring & management platform for each platform-specific monitoring agent you're going to support.
IMO, NetSNMP gets you the easy 80%, and the other 20% only comes with some harder work with the platform-specific agents, and is unlikely to give you a good return on your investment.
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