[hobbit] Roadmap? Devmon & xymon (was Re: [hobbit] Re: [Hobbitmon-developer] Xymon is practically dead)

[Buchan Milne]

On Friday, 2 July 2010 13:25:32 Daniel McDonald wrote:
> On 7/2/10 5:53 AM, "Vernon Everett" <everett.vernon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On the subject of a roadmap/plan
> >
> > Was there ever a plan to merge/integrate the source for Xymon and
> > Devmon, or did I dream it?
> 
> I think you dreamed it.  I am not able to use devmon because it doesn't
> support snmp v3.  Devmon is written in perl and uses the SNMP_utils
> libraries originally distributed with MRTG, while MRTG now also distributed
> the Net_SNMP-utils libraries that do support snmp v3.

Some other user who has a need for SNMPv3 is currently working on SNMPv3 
support in Devmon.

> Henrik discussed
>  snmp support using the Net SNMP C libraries that would support snmp v3.

That is a very small portion of the problem on SNMP support ...

Just collecting interface stats is trivial ....

Regards,
Buchan