Re: Has anyone used the Net-SNMP RMON implementation?

Makavy, Erez (Erez) wrote:
> 1) What's the status with that implementation? (Has it changes since 
> Net-SNMP-5.1.2?)
> 2) I understand the data gathering is not implemented. What is the API 
> used to implement the data gathering?


 From the FAQ:

Does the agent support the RMON-MIB?
-----------------------------------

     Not really.

     There is an "Rmon" code module included within the agent source
   code tree, but this is best thought of as a template for the
   RMON-MIB statistics groups, rather than a full implementation.

     With most MIBs, the hardest part of implementing the MIB is often
   getting hold of the data to report.  This is definitely true of the
   RMON-MIB, which relies on gathering (and analysing) a potentially
   large quantity of network traffic.   The Rmon code distributed with
   the Net-SNMP agent code avoids this problem, by using random data.

     Some of the functionality of the RMON-MIB, such as the alarm and
   event groups, has since been superceded by the work of the DisMan
   IETF working group.  The Net-SNMP agent does implement these (more
   general) MIB modules.  But the statistics gathering aspects of
   the RMON-MIB are not readily available.

     Note too that none of the core developers have any significant
   experience with this code, and the person who originally wrote it
   is no longer active on the mailing lists.  So there's no point in
   asking on the lists whether these modules work or not.  You've got
   the source - how badly do you need this functionality?


+Thomas

-- 
Thomas Anders (thomas.anders at blue-cable.de)


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