rpc.kstatd: Remote Kstat Access Service [PSARC/2008/502 FastTrack timeout 08/13/2008]

[James Carlson]

Nicolas Williams writes:
>         Future projects may wish to extend other kstat-based observation
>         tools to take advantage of this new feature (vmstat, iostat,
>         mpstat, etc).

Are there such future projects in progress that can be referenced?
Who will use this?

What's the difference between making kstats available via a private
RPC and creating a kstat private MIB for SNMP?  Is the RPC mechanism
preferable?

>         In order to utilize the RPC service, libkstat will get a new
>         flavor of kstat_open:
> 
>         kstat_ctl_t *kstat_open_host(char *)

The current libkstat is in the root file system (/lib) and links
against just libc and libm.  What does the new one require?

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