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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