Re: Using sysctl(1) to gather resource consumption data

2008-09-17 Thread David Wolfskill
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:39:27AM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > ... > > Also, the only times I have used SNMP, it has been using a version that > > did not support encryption in any form (as for as I know), and since > > some of the transit was over facilities we don't control, I thought it > >

Re: Using sysctl(1) to gather resource consumption data

2008-09-17 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:07:49 -0700 David Wolfskill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 09:11:36PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > > ... > > Out of curiosity, how does bsnmpd compare to your approach with regards to > > impact on the system. It is part of 7.0 , not sure about prev

Re: Using sysctl(1) to gather resource consumption data

2008-09-14 Thread Valerio Daelli
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 2:07 PM, David Wolfskill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 09:11:36PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: >> ... Hi I was thinking about extending net-snmp to gather some resource consumption data, (read-only MIBS). I'l post a PR as soon as I have a working p

Re: Using sysctl(1) to gather resource consumption data

2008-09-14 Thread David Wolfskill
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 09:11:36PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > ... > Out of curiosity, how does bsnmpd compare to your approach with regards to > impact on the system. It is part of 7.0 , not sure about previous versions, > and > it is definitely a more standard and cross platform approach ,

Re: Using sysctl(1) to gather resource consumption data

2008-09-14 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:48:22 -0700 David Wolfskill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wanted to have a low impact on the system being measured (of course), > and I was unwilling to require that a system to be measured had any > software installed on it other than base FreeBSD. (Yes, that means I > di

Re: Using sysctl(1) to gather resource consumption data

2008-09-14 Thread Brian Scott
David Wolfskill wrote: At $work, I've been trying to gather information on "interesting patterns" of resource consumption during moderately long-running (5 - 8 hour) tasks; the hosts in question usually run FreeBSD 6.2, though there's an occasional 6.x that's more recent, as well as a bit of 7-ST

Using sysctl(1) to gather resource consumption data

2008-09-12 Thread David Wolfskill
At $work, I've been trying to gather information on "interesting patterns" of resource consumption during moderately long-running (5 - 8 hour) tasks; the hosts in question usually run FreeBSD 6.2, though there's an occasional 6.x that's more recent, as well as a bit of 7-STABLE. I wanted to have a