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authorStef Walter <stef@memberwebs.com>2008-03-02 01:25:00 +0000
committerStef Walter <stef@memberwebs.com>2008-03-02 01:25:00 +0000
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parentec1a79b0f75cfd34085e046ecb30382a402ea318 (diff)
- Support failover between multiple agents
- Support table queries - Major refactoring of internals.
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.Nm
is an SNMP polling daemon which writes the polled values to an
.Xr rrdtool 1
-RRD database. An can poll many different SNMP sources in an efficient manner.
+RRD database. An can poll many different SNMP sources in an efficient manner.
+.Pp
+Table queries are supported, where the OID index of a certain value is not
+known beforehand, or may change regularly.
+.Pp
+In addition multiple SNMP agents may be specified for a certain value. If
+one SNMP agent cannot be contacted or errors for some reason, another one
+will be tried.
.Pp
The configuration (eg: SNMP sources, polling intervals) are located in files
in a directory, with one configuration file per RRD. The format of the