Should be possible to make a template from your existing host setup (or data/graph sources) , but i don't know how exactly.

When layz plz dump the working full setup in any form (e.g. screenshot or file snippet) i'll convert it to a Cacti template. Thx!

If you know more about configuring different SNMP value's to monitor please contribute!
MIB / anything.

2 steps creating snmpd.sh and modifying post_network_start.sh

1. Place in /etc/init.d named snmpd.sh

 #!/bin/sh # # Start snmpd # start() { export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib echo "Starting SNMPD" /usr/local/sbin/snmpd } stop() { echo "Stopping SNMPD" killall snmpd > /dev/null 2>&1 killall snmpd > /dev/null 2>&1 } restart() { stop start } case "$1" in start) start ;; stop) stop ;; restart) restart ;; cleanup) ;; *) echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}" exit 1 esac exit $? 

2. Modify the post_network_start.sh script as below to include the start stop reference to snmpd

(only part of the file is shown)

 start() { if [ ! -e "$POST_NETWORK_STARTED_FILE" ] then $SCRIPTS_PATH/crond.sh start $SCRIPTS_PATH/mionet.sh start $SCRIPTS_PATH/snmpd.sh start touch $POST_NETWORK_STARTED_FILE fi } stop() { if [ -e "$POST_NETWORK_STARTED_FILE" ] then $SCRIPTS_PATH/mionet.sh stop $SCRIPTS_PATH/crond.sh stop $SCRIPTS_PATH/snmpd.sh stop rm $POST_NETWORK_STARTED_FILE fi } 

(i know im lazy… sry)

So you want to monitor your BOok's CPU, load, and disk space with a professional solution ?
Me too.

COMPILE SNMPD

As a root user,

Get the latest net-snmp source from
http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/download.html

extract it somewhere, eg in /root

configure
make
make install

you now have a compiled SNMPD.
BEWARE :it took FOREVER to compile "net snmp" on my Book, at least two hours (it would have been faster to compile on my mobile phone !!!) but it works. You'll have to be patient. This also makes the CPU skyrocket at 100% for hours. Not the right time to start a backup.

SNMPD.CONF

Now create an snmpd.conf file to your likings
( the config file should be in /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf )

I'm sorry but creating a nice snmpd.conf is a tough job. If you use SNMPD daily you probably have configs of your own (your other servers, etc) so I will not enter into too much details here.
- You should allow READ access to your MyBook box from your monitoring station's IP.
- You should have a community name ( or leave it to public but securing it with IP filter )
- You should had "disk" lines in the config fil to ease autodetection of your drives

Here is a working example, a very minimal snmpd.conf file.
This uses the "public" community name, only allowed from a specific IP and from localhost.
This config could be improved by adding disk IOs, temperature monitoring, etc…

com2sec local localhost public
com2sec localnet your-monitoring-ip public

group MyROSystem v1 local
group MyROSystem v2c local
group MyROSystem usm local
group MyROGroup v1 localnet
group MyROGroup v2c localnet
group MyROGroup usm localnet
group MyRWGroup v1 local
group MyRWGroup v2c local
group MyRWGroup usm local

view all included .1 80
view system included .iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib-2.system

access MyROSystem "" any noauth exact system none none
access MyROGroup "" any noauth exact all none none
access MyRWGroup "" any noauth exact all all none

syslocation MyHouseInTheTrees
syscontact your-email.here

disk /var 10000
disk /shares/internal 10000
disk / 10000

STARTING SNMPD

The MyBook does not look into /usr/local/lib for libraries, so SNMPD does not start if you do not edit the default library paths.

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib

Launch it manually.
/usr/local/sbin/snmpd
check that port 161 UDP is listening by doing
netstat -an
you should see
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:161 0.0.0.0:*

You'll have to create a start/stop script to launch it at boot time once you're happy with your config.

WHAT YOU WILL GET

Add the MyBook's IP in your favorite network monitoring software, using the correct SNMP community name (from snmpd.conf )

http://pix.nofrag.com/5/5/7/1dacd6e97aad62e4ebf25f33d98cf.jpg

Interestingly, this also confirms that
- CPU usage is "thru the roof" when doing transfers
- 35-36Mbps is the maximum upload rate this box can handle. (this is no news but it is now documented :) )

This has been done on my World Book II 1Tb, 01.01.18, configured as a RAID1.

Pre requisites
- SSH access on your MyBook
- somekind of SNMP monitoring software on your network (zenoss, rrdtool, cacti, etc)

I disabled Mionet on my MyBook (simply shutting it down manually after boot with "mionet.sh stop" ) to have some more memory. I don't think this is mandatory.