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snmpd(8) enabled in -current, please help testing

Contributed by jl on from the hard-network-management dept.

As you may have noticed, Reyk Floeter (reyk@) has connected snmpd(8) and snmpctl(8) to the build in -current.

The Simple Network Management Protocol daemon in OpenBSD was mentioned before, please have a look here for a bit of background and a thorough description of what it does.

Please help improve snmpd(8) and snmpctl(8) by testing it as much as you can before the upcoming 4.3 release of OpenBSD. Here is a short list of things that have changed in snmpd:
  • Implemented trap sender, it is accessible from snmpctl and soon also from relayd using the imsg trap interface.
  • Various improvements of the MIB.
  • Added an official PEN (Private Enterprise Number) for OpenBSD. The PEN is 30155.
  • Lots of code improvements and cleanup.

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  1. By Nel (74.13.45.236) on

    22576
    The OpenBSD SNMP Project
    Theron Bair
    obsdsnmp&ackphft.net

    30155
    OpenBSD Project
    Reyk Floeter
    reyk&openbsd.org

    Would Theron not give up the previous one?

    Comments

    1. By Anonymous Coward (169.244.143.119) on

      > 22576
      > The OpenBSD SNMP Project
      > Theron Bair
      > obsdsnmp&ackphft.net
      >
      > 30155
      > OpenBSD Project
      > Reyk Floeter
      > reyk&openbsd.org
      >
      > Would Theron not give up the previous one?

      Would this be another thing that the OpenBSD foundation could take care of?

      Comments

      1. By Matthew Dempsky (38.102.129.178) on

        > Would this be another thing that the OpenBSD foundation could take care of?

        Is it still not yet understood that the OpenBSD foundation exists only as a legal entity for tax-deductible donations from large donors who are not interested in mailing a check to Theo? It's not meant to serve as a general proxy for everything the OpenBSD developers do that interacts with other organizations.

        Comments

        1. By tedu (204.14.154.18) on

          > > Would this be another thing that the OpenBSD foundation could take care of?
          >
          > Is it still not yet understood that the OpenBSD foundation exists only as a legal entity for tax-deductible donations from large donors who are not interested in mailing a check to Theo? It's not meant to serve as a general proxy for everything the OpenBSD developers do that interacts with other organizations.

          the openbsd foundation does not receive tax deductible donations.

          Comments

          1. By Matthew Dempsky (2002:2666:810a:0:21b:63ff:feca:36df) on

            > the openbsd foundation does not receive tax deductible donations.

            Oops, sorry, you're right.

  2. By Anonymous Coward (85.178.66.131) on

    I've right now no time to install a new snapshot but I'll give it a try.
    Is there a tool included do may even do some "little Pentesting" (yeah it sounds lame.. like smnpwalk or so...)?

  3. By Anonymous Coward (193.158.13.130) on

    Is the use of MRTG possible ?
    For example to get byte counters for every interface, system load or whats ever ?

    Comments

    1. By Terrell Prude' Jr. (151.188.247.104) tprude@cmosnetworks.com (this is a spamtrap address) on http://www.cmosnetworks.com/

      > Is the use of MRTG possible ?
      > For example to get byte counters for every interface, system load or whats ever ?
      >

      NMIS (basically MRTG on steroids) would also be really nice. That's what we use at work, along with Nagios.

      --TP

      Comments

      1. By Bayu Krisna (222.124.156.122) krisna@infobsd.org on http://www.infobsd.org

        > > Is the use of MRTG possible ?
        > > For example to get byte counters for every interface, system load or whats ever ?
        > >
        >
        > NMIS (basically MRTG on steroids) would also be really nice. That's what we use at work, along with Nagios.
        >
        > --TP


        How about Zabbix? Really nice monitoring BSD using Zabbix

    2. By Ian Darwin (69.17.146.104) on http://www.darwinsys.com/

      > Is the use of MRTG possible ?
      > For example to get byte counters for every interface, system load or whatever ?

      For some cases, at least, yes.

      See my web site, just append /mrtg/ to the domain name.

  4. By Jason Dixon (134.192.191.243) on

    I know the PF-MIB will be forthcoming, but I can't describe how anxious I am to see this functionality. We have a bunch of OpenBSD PF firewalls in production, and we use snmp for tracking just about everything on our networks. Go Reyk Go! :)

    P.S. Awesome work so far, loving it.

    Comments

    1. By Anonymous Coward (169.244.143.119) on

      > I know the PF-MIB will be forthcoming, but I can't describe how anxious I am to see this functionality. We have a bunch of OpenBSD PF firewalls in production, and we use snmp for tracking just about everything on our networks. Go Reyk Go! :)
      >
      > P.S. Awesome work so far, loving it.

      A MIB for sensorsd would be cool too!

  5. By Anonymous Coward (24.37.242.64) on

    Just curious, what body defines the PEN's to make them 'official'? I know very little about SNMP so this may be a dumb question.

    PS: Any recommendations on books for newbies to SNMP?

    TIA.

    Comments

    1. By Renaud Allard (renaud) on

      > Just curious, what body defines the PEN's to make them 'official'? I know very little about SNMP so this may be a dumb question.
      >
      > PS: Any recommendations on books for newbies to SNMP?
      >
      > TIA.

      As far as I know, this is IANA:
      http://pen.iana.org/pen/PenApplication.page

    2. By Anonymous Coward (81.83.46.237) on

      > PS: Any recommendations on books for newbies to SNMP?

      These can help (from the see also section of snmpd(8)):
      - RFC1157
      - http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/snmpv3/
      - RFC3410

    3. By Marc Balmer (2001:8a8:1001:0:216:76ff:fe72:356c) on http://www.vnode.ch/

      > Just curious, what body defines the PEN's to make them 'official'? I know very little about SNMP so this may be a dumb question.
      >
      > PS: Any recommendations on books for newbies to SNMP?

      Back in the 90's I read "The Simple Book" by Marshall T. Rose. But that might out of print nowadays.

      >
      > TIA.

  6. By Venture37 (venture37) venture37<A>hotmail.com on www.geeklan.co.uk

    Perfect timing, my pair of bargain basement PowerEdge t105 boxes have turned up today, In the process of downloading the AMD64 snapshot to test, I presume all feedback should be sent to misc@ ??

    Comments

    1. By Anonymous Coward (24.37.242.64) on

      > Perfect timing, my pair of bargain basement PowerEdge t105 boxes have turned up today, In the process of downloading the AMD64 snapshot to test, I presume all feedback should be sent to misc@ ??

      I think a dmesg to dmesg@openbsd.org would be good too.

      Comments

      1. By Venture37 (venture37) on www.geeklan.co.uk

        > > Perfect timing, my pair of bargain basement PowerEdge t105 boxes have turned up today, In the process of downloading the AMD64 snapshot to test, I presume all feedback should be sent to misc@ ??
        >
        > I think a dmesg to dmesg@openbsd.org would be good too.

        Already done ;)
        http://marc.info/?t=120189695000002&r=1&w=2
        I meant feedback for snmpd! :)

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