[dns-operations] Monitoring DNS Servers

[david klein]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Wes Hardaker <wjhns1 at hardakers.net> wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 11:48:04 +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> said:
>
> SB> Querying the SNMP agent monitors the SNMP agent, not the service the
> SB> box is supposed to provide.
>
> Unless the service is instrumented with SNMP, which many services are.
> DNS, however, is not generally one of them.  Though I thought there was
> a DNS vendor that did provide a private set of their data and made it
> available over SNMP.  But I don't remember who.


This is why I am looking for an application-aware SNMP agent, and why
SystemEdge came to mind.



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