I would like to track computer A's CPU (and maybe memory etc) usage on computer B in a GUI similar to that of Activity Monitor. Is that possible? Preferably a free solution. I have looked at SNMP but can't find any clients similar to Activity Monitor (or free).

There is a known issue that latest Time Capsule and Airport Base stations have SNMP disabled. But SNMP ports 161 and 162 are still reserved by Time Capsule for SNMP. It leads to the question: Is there someone who was able to enable SNMP on the latest models of TC and AE?

I want to install my own Net-SNMP because the preinstalled Net-SNMP is too old. But when I install a newer Net-SNMP via Homebrew, my path doesn't use the latest Net-SNMP. I would think the best option is to just remove the preinstalled Net-SNMP. How do i uninstall the preinstalled Net-SNMP?

Using Mountain Lion and the Airport utility I can't find a way to activate SNMP on any of the Airport base stations I have. Even the old ones which were configured to use it don't have the option anymore. It is as if the options disappeared recently. What is the solution to enable SNMP?

Apologies in advance if this has been answered. What is the exact procedure to reset Net-SNMP to "factory defaults" on, say, OSX 10.10 - or any other OSX flavor? A number of our Xserves were upgraded from 10.6 to 10.8 to 10.9 or 10.10 and in the process appear to have their Net-SNMP executables and/or configuration corrupted - e.g. snmpd daemons crashing frequently, not reporting CPU/mem loads, etc. Tried comparing folder structures between affected and unaffected nodes and haven't gotten too far. **Edit**: just to be clear, this isn't about snmpd.conf - but about snmp executables, MIBs and what not. Appreciate any ideas!

I am trying to enable SNMP version 3 with a single ready-only user on Mac OS X 10.8.5 so that I can remotely monitor the health of the computer. When I attempt a local snmpwalk, this message is returned: No log handling enabled - using stderr logging snmpwalk: Authentication failure (incorrect password, community or key) Below are the exact steps I executed to get to this point. What am I missing? FYI, the username I am using is rouser with password 12345678 sudo snmpconf -i creates /usr/share/snmp/snmpd.conf with permissions -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 484 Sep 25 14:44 snmpd.conf and contains: # snmpd.conf # - created by the snmpconf configuration program # # SECTION: Access Control Setup # # This section defines who is allowed to talk to your running # snmp agent. # rouser: a SNMPv3 read-only user # arguments: user [noauth|auth|priv] [restriction_oid] rouser rouser priv create user: sudo net-snmp-config --create-snmpv3-user -ro -a 12345678 -x 12345678 -X AES -A SHA rouser that creates /var/db/net-snmp/snmpd.conf with permissions -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 46 Sep 25 14:44 snmpd.conf and contains: createUser rouser SHA "12345678" AES 12345678 that command also updates /usr/share/snmp/snmpd.conf to this (last line added): # snmpd.conf # - created by the snmpconf configuration program # # SECTION: Access Control Setup # # This section defines who is allowed to talk to your running # snmp agent. # rouser: a SNMPv3 read-only user # arguments: user [noauth|auth|priv] [restriction_oid] rouser rouser priv rouser rouser enable SNMP: sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.net-snmp.snmpd.plist that command changed the permissions of /var/db/net-snmp/snmpd.conf to -rw------- 1 root wheel 1420 Sep 25 15:04 snmpd.conf and changed its contents to: # # net-snmp (or ucd-snmp) persistent data file. # ############################################################################ # STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP # # **** DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE **** # # STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP ############################################################################ # # DO NOT STORE CONFIGURATION ENTRIES HERE. # Please save normal configuration tokens for snmpd in SNMPCONFPATH/snmpd.conf. # Only "createUser" tokens should be placed here by snmpd administrators. # (Did I mention: do not edit this file?) # usmUser 1 3 0x80001f888098ad4f304567245400000000 "rouser" "rouser" NULL .1.3.6.1.6.3.10.1.1.3 0x22051a77e41dc526caebc92dc387257482bcd$ setserialno 1673336648 ############################################################## # # snmpNotifyFilterTable persistent data # ############################################################## ############################################################## # # ifXTable persistent data # ifXTable .1 14:0 18:0x $ ifXTable .2 14:0 18:0x $ ifXTable .3 14:0 18:0x $ ifXTable .4 14:0 18:0x $ ifXTable .5 14:0 18:0x $ ifXTable .6 14:0 18:0x $ ifXTable .7 14:0 18:0x $ ifXTable .8 14:0 18:0x $ ############################################################## engineBoots 1 oldEngineID 0x80001f888098ad4f304567245400000000 try querying the system locally: snmpwalk -v 3 -u rouser -l authPriv -a MD5 -A 12345678 -x DES -X 12345678 localhost .1 that returns: No log handling enabled - using stderr logging snmpwalk: Authentication failure (incorrect password, community or key) /var/log/snmpd.log: /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 61: Error: example config COMMUNITY not properly configured /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 62: Error: example config NETWORK not properly configured net-snmp: 2 error(s) in config file(s) NET-SNMP version 5.6 Authentication failed for rouser Authentication failed for rouser disable SNMP in the meantime sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.net-snmp.snmpd.plist Any thoughts? Thanks!

My group runs a bunch of Mac Pros and xServes of various flavors, and being a fairly recent hire, I am getting up to speed on how to monitor them properly. We use SolarWinds NPM and SAM, and monitor those Macs via SNMP. Problem: some of them do not report CPU and memory load, and one - volumes. snmp configurations on these are identical. Is this about MIBs? What's the easiest way to get all of our Macs to report CPU and memory load? Say, I have two xServes (OSX 10.6.8 but it doesn't really matter); one is reporting CPU/mem, the other one isn't. snmpd.conf files are identical. What do I need to do to enable CPU/mem polling on the handicapped machine? Is this about copying certain MIBs in /usr/share/snmp from one machine to another? Thanks!

I have a home network with several users, using both LAN & Wifi. I have a Billion 7800N router which is also my ADSl2 modem. Is there a tool or something I can use that monitors all traffic going through the router, including capturing packets? Some features im looking for is broadband usage per user/ip, packet inspection (not required but handy) and other general network stats. I was looking at Netuse network monitor from AppStore as it also uses the SNMP data on the router, but with no trial version im not willing to buy just yet. Thanks

I'm looking for a piece of software akin to Cacti, one that is preferably much easier to set up, and has a high-quality frontend to it. I had a headless Linux desktop that I used to poll my Time Machine and graph network statistics off of, but that computer is currently undergoing repairs, so I'm left with the remaining computers I have in the house, which are all Mac. I have no specific requirements that I consider as a sticking point. My baseline of features would be something with the granularity that Cacti/RRDTool provide. Graphs with scalable units of time/history (configurable is a plus!), quick/easy to get started with little installation is preferable, something that perhaps just runs as a daemon/program and doesn't require a web server and detailed tailored configuration (read: discovery) would be just fine, and possibly even preferred.

I'm currently setting a development environment in python 3.3 and i'm trying to import the Net-SNMP python bindings but idk where the files are located. Simple question: anyone knows where are located the Net-SNMP python binding files in MacOSX 10.8.3??

Per my other question on monitoring network throughput , I now have a series of graphs, some of which are distinctly non-obvious as to what they are. Is there documentation on what every interface on a Time Capsule (in this case, current generation, 1TB Wireless N Base Station), pollable via SNMP are? Here is the list that is available: gec0 ath0 ath1 wlan0 wlan1 wlan2 wlan3 vlan1 rxq0