[lcdproc] SNMP

[Patrick C. F. Ernzer]

Hi,

--On Thursday, 24 August 2000 9:16 -0600 "William W. Ferrell" 
<wwf@frontierdev.com> wrote:

> SNMP would be a great client, to say the least. Hell, if LCDproc itself
> could make stuff available over SNMP it'd be rather useful too.
>
> I don't understand SMTP enough yet to know if it's something we should
> consider adding to LCDd or not.

The stats that are gathered by the clients can be sent via SNMP without 
using LCDproc. The only thing that I see LCDproc doing via SNMP is:

a) status messages on the LCDproc server (up, down, number of clients...)
b) use SNMP as input but this will open a box full of problems;
  i) SNMP is insecure (correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm yet to see an
     implementation that does encrypt it's community string and data.
  ii) Way too much work.

I suggest forgetting about SNMP in LCDproc, a shell script can collect data 
with snmpwalk and pass it on for displaying and some shell tool can keep 
tabs on the LCDproc server and make this available via SNMP if the user 
wants to know if the server is up or down...

RU

PCFE
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