Hi, I played around with MRTG which worked out-of-the-box. I just started rcsnmpd on the hosts and adjusted the firewalls to allow UDP:161 for the "monitor" host. Now the hosts run snmpd without configuration (at least it looks that there is no configuration file). I just started snmpd. Now I want to hear some statement about the risks. Since SNMP is very powerful, I fear that I opened some security leaks. OK, the firewalls are restrictive but I could sleep better if I could be sure that the default config garantes "read-only" accesses only. Second, snmpwalk reports really much things, but for MRTG I need the interface stats only. I looked for some example configuration files but they are complex to understand. Any sugesstions? Since I run SNMP now, I think about useing the check_snmp plugin with netsaint. I could imagine to check via snmp if i.e. the process "ypbind" is still running and so on. Is this secure? Or should I better not doing this? I would be glad if I could find anyone who uses check_snmp for more that checking snmpd itself. We could discuss this is little, but maybe this list is OT for that particular issue. I'm looking forward to any statements, thank you. oki, Steffen -- Dieses Schreiben wurde maschinell erstellt, es trägt daher weder Unterschrift noch Siegel.