Re: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd)

["Travis H." <travis+ml-nanog () subspacefield org>]

Hey folks, I am following up to an ancient email because I'm curious
if anyone has some SNMP-related resources.  Basically, there's a lot
of how-to or manpage sort of information, but I'm still unclear on
what an MIB actually _is_, what problem ASN.1 actually solves, and
more to the point how the whole shebang (I'm using net-snmpd) is
typically used.

I believe that what I need to do is get any/all MIBs for all "entities"
(typically networking hardware devices) that I want to monitor, and import
them into the net-snmp configuration somehow, and then software that calls
on net-snmp can access the information from the devices.

Is this accurate?

Will I need to import MIBs to every net mgmt application?  Should they
be carefully accounted for and synchronized, or can I treat them like
a typical configuration file, where it is obvious if I need it and I
get them as needed?

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 02:43:40PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > How about something like:
> > http://www.hdfgroup.org/whatishdf5.html
> I don't think they support transactional updates, which makes it hard
> to use for live data.  (A simple crash, and you need to recover from
> backup.)

Hmm, doesn't that depend on how they do their writes and the structure
of the file/database?  I can think of a number of things that write
to disk which recover automagically if they crash which don't have
transaction logs or rollback or anything like that... it's just
inherent in how they write.
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