Peter Tribble wrote: > > Now - and this is just a question - what's wrong with snmp, which does > remote collection from a central station?
Nothing, as far as I'm concerned. Is that project still progressing? > Why do you need a web service to collect the data together? I just copy > it to a central repository and munge it off-host? While I didn't directly talk on this (perhaps I should have), I see the web service being on a somewhat dedicated system; one that's already running a web server. (Maybe a documentation server?) I don't see, nor want, every server in a shop having a web server running. That's just ugly. Sorry for not being clear on this earlier. > Why collect this data locally and then serve up the collected data? Why > not have a kstat daemon that can be queried Which-ever way works is fine, as long as the data is clean and available when needed. Rainer -- Mind the gap. http://www.dragonhearth.com/blogs/rheilke
