Round one done!

Round one of the SNMP stuff is DONE. Still have lots of tweaking.. but we have a complete embedded snmp agent in under 350K and have full snmp client support. I am graphically drawing the cpu, memory and bandwidth stats.. and figured out how to extract and parse the connection table. Whhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeew. I think I am taking the weekend off.. I'm quite abit ahead of schedule. (For this part... don't get yer hopes up)

The more I grok through the src code for the snmpd daemon.. the more I am kicking myself for not looking more into this earlier. The reality is that engel tried to convince me that snmp might be the way to go a while back. When I originally looked into it the potential for harm, leaked information and exploitation on the firewall was WAY to much to handle in our risk mitigation plans. Well, since then snmp has come a long way. SNMPv3 has cleaner security extensions, and the guys over at net-snmp have got their act together with the 5.0 series they just released. If you are reading this engel.... I never forgot about your input on that. Thanks.

This weekend I am going to some manmade lake in Langley to go to a birthday BBQ. Hope the weather is nice to enjoy it. I also am thinking about taking my daughter to go see Stuart Little 2 on Sunday... as she is dying to see it.. and after seeing the cat in the paint can commenting on how it is "now its a litter box" in the latest commercial... I might enjoy it to.

Well... I'm outta here. Have a great weekend.