Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 28 Sep 1996 10:04:21 -0400 | From | James Hughes <> | Subject | SNMP (WAS - Re: /proc filesystem code cleanup) |
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Rob Riggs wrote: > > On 27-Sep-96 "Andrew E. Mileski" wrote: > >> I am working with on implementing /proc support on a driver and > >> noticed that each subsystem seems to implement their interface to > >> the proc code a bit differently. Only the SCSI devices seem to > >> have any sort of uniform proc interface, but it is still very > >> SCSI specific....
If the network drivers were standardized to use /proc/net/snmp for monitoring with any SNMP manager. The CMU agent, modified by Juergen Schoenwaelder, Erik Schoenfelder and friends for Linux, could then be used to control things like the IP firewalling and such from the manager.
I have used the tkined / scotty package for monitoring several machines. It would be a boon for administrators to have control over their servers.
-james
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