On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 06:19:39PM +0200, Thomas Aeby wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 12:47 +0200, Niels Baggesen wrote: > > May I suggest a much easier road: use SNMP. > [...] > > My opinion(!) on this is: SNMP is fine if the target device already > runs an SNMP agent that delivers the MIBs you require. Otherwise it's > not easier to setup an SNMP agent than to setup a BigSister agent. And I must admit that I always start by configuring SNMP on any new kind of box that I get, just to get some basic monitoring in place. > So to speak, SNMP for accessing lm_sensors via BigSister does not > sound like a good idea, since you then would have to first setup an > SNMP agent, then to configure this SNMP agent so that it is providing > access to lm_sensors metrics, then on top of that run BigSister. For my RedHat system, snmpd comes with lm-sensors support, so that is no problem. The good thing about SNMP is that it generally works the same across server operating systems. That means that I can use the same tester for any Dell box, whether it is running Windows or Linux. /Niels -- Niels Baggesen - @home - Århus - Denmark - suppressed The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers --- R W Hamming ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bigsister-general mailing list suppressed https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bigsister-general
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