HOW TO: CPU, Disk, Network and Memory Usage Reporting via FreeBSD’s bsnmpd(1) and bsnmp-ucd(8)

HOW TO: CPU, Disk, Network and Memory Usage Reporting via FreeBSD’s bsnmpd(1) and bsnmp-ucd(8)

Out of the box, FreeBSD’s default SNMP daemon bsnmpd(1) does not support the UCD-SNMP-MIBs which is where all the “good stuff” like CPU, disk, network and memory that us sysadmins like to monitor. Adding this module is as easy as installing the bsnmp-ucd port and doing a quick update to bsnmp’s config file:

$ cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/bsnmp-ucd/
        $ make install clean

Once that module is installed all we need to do is add these lines to end of /etc/snmpd.config:

#
        # bsnmp-ucd (8)
        #
        begemotSnmpdModulePath."ucd" = "/usr/local/lib/snmp_ucd.so"

Finally we just need to restart bsnmpd to have it load the new module:

$ /etc/rc.d/bsnmpd restart
        Stopping bsnmpd.
        Starting bsnmpd.

Note: This assumes you have the following in your /etc/rc.conf:

bsnmpd_enable="YES"

That’s it! You should be able to retrieve full disk, CPU and memory information (as well as a bunch of other things UCD’s MIB adds) via SNMP queries!