snmp versus /proc
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sun Aug 21 03:26:51 UTC 2005
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 16:37, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 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 ?
Monitoring systems often monitor many servers running
different OS's and other devices like routers and switches.
Snmp values are available over the network with fast udp
requests. /proc is only available on the local host and
only on Linux and similar OS's.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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