On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >>> >> >> and thats different than configuring remote agents ? > > Remote agents for anything but snmp protocol tend to be specific for a > particular monitoring tool and often available for only one or a limited > number of platforms. Snmp is built into most network-capable devices. exactly the way i'm thinking about it. this gives you the option to switch between any monitoring tool that properly supports snmp and i will not have to change anything on the client side. plus, as far as i know, snmp gives disk usage info, and, afaik, also running processes. for now, that's enough for me.