[CentOS] Re: [OT] What is the best network monitoring tool?

Mon Oct 13 19:38:42 UTC 2008
nate <centos at linuxpowered.net>

John R Pierce wrote:

> well, SNMP isn't going to tell you much about the state of a webserver
> or databbase statistics or whatever, its mostly just network information.

It can tell you just about anything depending on how you
configure it, SNMP is just a protocol. I get DB stats, system
stats etc from SNMPD by hooking in custom OIDs to external
scripts/files.

nate