[Xymon] SNMP Polling Support

[Henrik Størner]

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