On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 15:05 +0200, Alain Barthe wrote: > > Sounds like a fun project. > I agree. With PostgreSQL, a the agent can simply daemonize and talk to the Postmaster using libpq and proper HBA. Everything in pg_catalog.* and information_schema.* is already quantified in SQL data structures: postgres=# \d pg_catalog.pg_tables; View "pg_catalog.pg_tables" Column | Type | Modifiers -------------+---------+----------- schemaname | name | tablename | name | tableowner | name | tablespace | name | hasindexes | boolean | hasrules | boolean | hastriggers | boolean | postgres=# SELECT * from pg_catalog.pg_database limit 2; datname | datdba | encoding | datistemplate | datallowconn | datconnlimit | datlastsysoid | datfrozenxid | dattablespace | datconfig | datacl ----------+--------+----------+---------------+--------------+--------------+---------------+--------------+---------------+-----------+-------- postgres | 10 | 0 | f | t | -1 | 10818 | 34352041 | 1663 | | nagios | 17056 | 0 | f | t | -1 | 10818 | 34352146 | 1663 | | (2 rows) ~BAS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list Net-snmp-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users