[SunHELP] MRTG and Sun's snmpd

Bill Bradford sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Wed Dec 13 12:52:21 CST 2000


On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:29:40PM -0500, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> > Which snmpd are you using?  We are looking at the UC Davis snmpd.  It is
> > supposed to be more full-featured than the Sun one.
> i use the ucd-snmp agent on FreeBSD and NetBSD without problem, however, on my
> SPARC machine running Solaris 8, if i run the ucd-snmp agent i run into the
> following issue.
> if i ^C out of an snmpwalk of the MIB tree, the ucd-snmp agent crashes.  i then
> have to restart it.  the SUN supplied snmp agent doesn't crash in this same
> setup.  i've tried this repeatedly, and i can reproduce it every time.  if
> the SUN supplied snmp agent does what you need, then i recommend using it, if
> it doesn't do what you need, you may want to consider running ucd-snmp from 
> sun's snmpx (Master SNMP Agent) to fill in the blanks.
> just my 2 cents.
> -brian

I ended up using the normail sun snmpd and its working fine, altho I need to
tweak the rrdtool graphs so that I can SEE the output (I'm doing about
ISDN-speeds on a 100baseT interface...)

Bill

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