On 05/23/2016 05:51 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote: > Exposing the data via SNMP on the host to be monitored distributes the CPU > load individually onto each host
So much this. Most importantly, it removes the fork/exec overhead from the monitoring server. > This allows cacti or opennms or anything else to poll the hosts to be > monitored via something that scales better than php script workers, using > the 'spine' SNMP data acquisition method and the equivalent in other snmp > polling platforms. Point of fact for OpenNMS users: all our collectors are in-process, so in cases where SNMP is impractical you can use the XML/JSON or JDBC or WS-Management collector and still achieve great scale with a single server. But SNMP still scales and interoperates like nothing else. -jeff
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