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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