On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 16:37, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I've been looking (not very hard) at RRD (round-robin database), > and I notice that several examples displaying things like memory usage > use snmp (more precisely snmpwalk) to gather the information. > > I'm just wondering if this still makes sense. > Most of the information seems to be available in /proc , > and I wondered if it is just conservatism > that leads people to keep on with snmp ? Monitoring systems often monitor many servers running different OS's and other devices like routers and switches. Snmp values are available over the network with fast udp requests. /proc is only available on the local host and only on Linux and similar OS's. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
