[Xymon] Alternate devmon SNMP

[Bruce Ferrell]

Hi Bruno,

I actually poll Linux (net-snmp), OS X (net-snmp from Mac Ports), 
Windows 2008r2, 7 and 10, PfSense 2.2.6/FreeBSD 10.1R25(bsnmpd)  and 
Cisco; all of those from a Linux system



On 5/10/19 9:31 AM, Bruno Manzoni wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
>
> Many thanks for your answer and I shared your point of view: if you use
> the version of sourceforge, you should put a ticket on it.
>
> Also I dont want to deserve nor Devmon on sourceforge nor Xymon: I just
> try to make my best (The road to hell is paved with good intentions)
> My goal of this proposition was just to move this discussion elsewhere:
> to not bother people of this mailing list
>
> And thanks for the info about memory leaks: just to document this
> problem: your are polling BSD OS, from a BSD OS or from a linux OS?
> Le 09.05.2019 à 16:17, Bruce Ferrell a écrit :
>>
>>
>> On 5/9/19 3:47 AM, Bruno Manzoni wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I created a repo with "devmon" github/bonomani and included all
>>> patches/contrib and resolved all bugs I can. (I try to integrate all
>>> patches, bugs and features from SF) see the REAMDE for details
>>>
>>> This is not an official update of current "devmon" but I have
>>> difficulties to have an answer on current sourceforge repo, so I decided
>>> to publish what I have done. (I did not have any answer on my patches
>>> after myn years!?)
>>>
>>> As i am working on Centos, there are some specific things for systemd.
>>>
>>> I trying also to contact devmon admins to merge this work or part of
>>> it,  so if you have a clue...
>>>
>>> If you want to test this work, you should simply take the files in the
>>> "modules" dir and it should work...with your current installation
>>>
>>> And of course any suggestions are welcome!
>>>
>>> Bruno
>>>
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>> Bruno,
>>
>> As a long time user of devmon, I'd be fascinated to see an 
>> enumeration of the bugs, features, patches etc in your repo.
>>
>> One of the biggest "bugs" I've seen, and I haven't had time to chase 
>> it down is that over time devmon seems to leak memory like a sieve, 
>> becoming quite bloated.  I run a cron job to kill (yes kill -9 ) and 
>> restart it every four hours... Not under systemd.
>>
>> Personally, I'll avoid systemd like the plague, however I'd think 
>> those modifications should be called out and isolated as well... 
>> Especially considering devmon normally runs as a perl based daemon... 
>> At least on my Scientific linux 6.10 system.
>>
>>
>>
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