[Xymon] SNMP Polling Support

[Dan Smith]

Thanks for the explanation, Henrik.  
I thought it might not be for public consumption, but configure set it up to
be built in the makefile so I figured I'd ask.

...and thanks for continuing to share xymon.  It is pretty stunning.

-dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com 
> [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Henrik Størner
> Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 4:24 PM
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] SNMP Polling Support
> 
> 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
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