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

[James Carlson]

Mike Shapiro writes:
> SNMP may not win elegance awards, but it's the common namespace that most
> heterogeneous management tools wish to consume.  While Solaris includes NetSNMP
> barely any work has been done on enriching our SNMP MIBs.  For FMA we created
> a Fault Management MIB exposing the stable portions of the abstractions there
> and this has been viewed very positively by customers.  I would strongly
> suggest there is much more value in taking kstats that represent stable
> concepts, like say disk status, or zfs statistics, or zones, or new networking
> things like datalinks, and creating MIBs for them, rather than creating
> our own private way to express only one aspect of Solaris statistics.

That's it exactly.  I'd be wildly in favor of a project that did just
this, rather than doing what is (in my opinion) only a hack.

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