"Bartram, Chris" wrote:
>
> SNMP is not directly related to Scope/iX, but it can chew up a bit
> of cpu.  It's noticeable when it gets polled on our 997-400, though
> I suspect most of that is due to it's having to check all 72 of our
> disc drives as the MIB is walked.

The first poll sort of "dynamically initializes" the daemon.  Beyond
that, if it works like the HPUX daemon, it tries to cache MIB values
based on time (assuming you're going to do a walk or multiple query)
so if the time interval is expired, it goes and refreshes the whole
MIB tree.  I haven't noticed this so badly on 6.0 but earlier releases
SNMPD often showed up on the radar screen (Glance, SOS).

HPUX has an outstanding bug with their SNMPv2 daemon on 11.0 where it
refreshes the "cache" with every query.  Now that eats up some CPU :-(

Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>