Re: rmon possibilities?

[Bert D. <dri...@pl...>]

Jason Greenberg wrote:

>         hey all -- was wondering...the RMON-MIB is in the mibs
> directory...how do you activate it?  do i have to compile it first
> with mib2c, or is there an alternative way of doing this?  
> essentially, the goal of all of this is to send out traps based on
> certain values being exceeded/reached elsewhere in the MIBs (so if
> someone knows of another way to do this, please advise!)...

This topic comes up every once in a while... Actually, both topics :-)

mib2c will only generate a template for you. What you have to do then is
implement the code that actually does what needs to happen. In the case
of RMON, that is a lot.

There is one public RMON implementation available, which is btng
(Beholder, The Next Generation) from the university of
Delft. Unfortunately, it is as dead as a doornail. Pity, because it's a
very good piece of work.

I'm considering ripping all parts of btng that duplicate UCD-SNMP
functionality out, and using the remainder as a standalone RMON agent to
supplement NET-SNMP (time permitting, loosely integrating the thing as a
sub-agent, but we all know what an elusive entity time is).

I've started to work on this, currently the thing builds under FreeBSD
and BSD/OS. Contact me if you want to try your luck.

Cheers,

				-- Bert


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