SNMP Data
SNMP, Simple Network Management Protocol is a standard protocol
designed to transmit performance data. Units of data are referred
to as mibs, Management Information Bases. As a standard, SNMP is
used for network data. It allows private enterprises to define
their own data in a manner that won't cause conflicts, and has
been extended with a definition for a set of Host Mibs. The Host
Mibs provide host type data that would be of interest to
performance analysts and capacity planners.
If you wish to apply for your own data, you can find information
and an application at
http://www.iana.org.
If you would like to learn more about SNMP, there are
several RFCs that provide good reading, RFC 1907, 2011 are a
couple.
Host Mibs:
Of more interest is RFC 1514 defining the Host Resource Mibs.
The host mibs allow information on the system, storage, devices,
installed software, and resource use by application to be retrieved.
Host Mibs Linux Ports:
CMU-SNMP:
(Carnegie Mellon), the project has been discontinued.
UCD-SNMP:
(U.C. Davis) has been discontinued. It is the basis for NET-SNMP.
NET-SNMP:
Available on SourceForge), this is the port that is most useful.
NET-SNMP (www.net-snmp.org)
Some useful links about this port are the following:
README
net-snmp.sourceforge.net/README.txt
net-snmp.sourceforge.net/README.snmpv3.txt
INSTALL
http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/INSTALL.txt
TUTORIAL
ucd-snmp.ucdavis.edu/tutorial
FAQ
net-snmp.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
Port
installed/used as part of joint study
ESATCP:
Velocity Software provides ESATCP, an SNMP client that gathers
data via SNMP, and inserts that data into the monitor stream
to be processed by ESAMAP and ESAMON.