Subj : Re: Network Monitoring
To : Brian Rogers
From : John Dovey
Date : Wed May 26 2021 09:34 pm
Glad to see you, Brian!
BR> Hello John;
BR>
BR> -=> John Dovey wrote to Brian Rogers <=-
BR>
JD>> Something like this for the Zone Hubs, then for the RC within a zone
JD>> maybe?
https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping-demo/?target=multi.DNSJ
BR>
BR> Let me tell you why that would not work:
BR>
BR> I have written a monitoring system for packet nodes using RRDTool which is
BR> what your smokeping uses. RRDTool requires MRTG as it's backend... and mrtg
BR> requires SNMP. FTN does not support this. This doesn't mean that each sysop
BR> couldn't allow SNMP to their communication interface however an argument
BR> against such would be system security! I would never ask one to do this.
BR>
BR> ... If you're bad at haggling, you'll end up paying the price.
Granted. I did say "something like"...
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