RE: Monitoring AutoFS in SNMP

[Brian <kimhick@yahoo.com>]

> If it spawns a new process each time it mounts a new
> partition, would it
> not have a parent process that would at least be constant
> on the server?
> If that's the case, maybe you should just monitor the
> parent process.
> Otherwise, it would make sense to monitor a partition
> instead of a pid
> for a specific spawned process.
> 
> James
> 

It looks like the parent process snmp mib is also tied to it's pid and would change whenever the daemon is restarted.

I am beginning to wonder if you can monitor Debian daemons at all with snmp.

Brian