On 08-09-2011 18:25, Dan Smith wrote:
Two things
- Does anyone know what the xymon-snmpcollect code is for?
Yes, I wrote the code so I would know ...
- If it is either not used now or not ready for "prime time", it might be a good idea to put a comment in the code or add something to the web site that says that it's not available.
It is part of the distribution (although you could argue it shouldn't be), because Xymon is "my" tool. So sometimes I add stuff which I use, but where the design might not be entirely thought through. Meaning things may change and I may break stuff, so I don't want too many people relying on it working in any specific way.
xymon-snmpcollect is such a tool. It was written because I needed something to collect traffic statistics from a lot of switches, and I was worried if devmon could handle the load. It turns out that the approach I took when writing xymon-snmpcollect wasn't very good - it collects far too much data, and it is problematic pushing such large messages into Xymon. So the design of that tool should be thought through again, and maybe I should just give up on it and figure out how to use devmon for the job.
Regards, Henrik