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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: a maze of twisty stats, most different
Date: 29 Jun 2007 19:30:23 +0200
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David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com> writes:

> I think there's a more general problem that's a huge hassle. There are 
> lots of
> new SNMP MIB's, but no conventions (that I'm aware of, at least) to allow 
> for
> changes to the /proc entries that get them to applications. 

Actually /proc/net/snmp and netstat -s are extensible. If you add a new
MIB or field there it should just show up in netstat -s. It won't know about
the text decoding that is done for the early traditional MIBs, but that
is already not there for most of the newer fields.

-Andi