Goodbye SNMP, hello statistics.

[Alan DeKok]

Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
> But it also kinda limits the usefulness of the feature. Couldn't you
> place it in the hands of the server admins to decide which hosts can
> query and which can't? Another configuration item in clients?

  <grumble>

  It's possible.  I guess.

  I think the safest thing to do is to have a socket that's *only* for
these statistics.  That way it's clear that no authentication can be
done using it. and "real" clients have no business querying it.

  Alan DeKok.