On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 12:31 +0100, John Horne wrote: > > My question is, could the squid.conf 'visible_hostname' be made > available to SNMP, probably through a new entry in the squid MIB? This > would then provide the 'system name' as configured by the sysadmin for > squid. Secondly, of course, how MRTG gets the 'system name' I am not > sure - I would have though it would look for the standard SNMP v2 > 'sysName' entry. > Checking a bit further, it seems that MRTG has a 'RouterName' option which takes an OID to determine the 'system name' if required. As such if the 'visible_hostname' was put into the squid MIB (with its own OID), then I could use that OID with the MRTG RouterName to get the system name. I think I'll put this into bugzilla as an enhancement. John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: John.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +44 (0)1752 233839
