The stock bsnmpd implementation in FreeBSD 6 and 7 is somewhat lacking
in terms of being able to report CPU and disk I/O stats as reported by
the version of net-snmp in the ports tree (net-snmp-5.3.2_1). In
particular, net-snmp does relatively straightforward reporting of things
like ssCpuUser, diskIONRead, etc. However, it currently lacks the HC
(64-bit) counters for IF-MIB found in bsnmpd. A quick check of the docs
accompanying net-snmp (README.agent-mibs) suggest that Linux is the only
OS for which net-snmp provides the ifXTable support apparently needed
for HC counters.
I'd like to run bsnmpd, but need the UCD-MIB for other performance
monitoring. I could run net-snmp and proxy requests through it to
bsnmpd, but that strikes me as inelegant. There's a bsnmpd-ucd module
at Google
http://bsnmp-ucd.googlecode.com/
which is seems to work, except for some minor bugs in what it reports
for laLoadFloat.[123]. Have any of you experience with this? Are there
plans to add it to the ports tree? (There's already a ports-compatible
tarball.) Alternatively, are any of you using the IF-MIB HC counters
with an SNMP daemon that also supports UCD-MIB and, if so, which one?
Thanks in advance for any information you can provide!
--
Alan Amesbury
University of Minnesota
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