snmp proxy daemon help

[Hugo van der Kooij]

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Jonathan Mills wrote:
| I have compiled and installed snmppd on my nagios systems.  I'd heard
| that using the snmp proxy daemon would help reduce snmp check times
| and loads on the servers being monitored.  We have been noticing very
| high CPU utilization on our NetApp filers every time nagios does an
| snmp check on them.  When we disable nagios checks on the filers, load
| decreases significantly.
|
| However, we've seen no improvement by using snmppd thus far, which
| makes me question if perhaps I'm not using it the right way.  Other
| than installing it via rpm and starting the service, all I've done is
| symlink check_snmp to the new check_snmpp in my plugins directory.
|
| Does anyone have more experience with this?

Why do you expect a SNMP proxy to reduce load? You will still fire off
the same amount of SNMP requests to the NetApp filers.

Hugo.

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