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This assumes that you have got JFFNMS installed and working correctly, and that you have some understanding of how to write PHP and how SNMP works.
Some JFFNMS terms:
-* Interface - The basic unit which you can monitor. An obvious example is a port in a router. An interface may have multiple statistics gathered about it. (Eg. packet loss rates, bytes in, bytes out).
+* Interface - The basic unit which you can monitor. An obvious example is a port in a router. An interface may have multiple statistics gathered about it. (Eg. packet loss rates, bytes in, bytes out). However an interface might be something like a disk, or a temperature sensor
* Host - An entity that contains interfaces. You define the IP address to talk to and the community string to use at a host level.
* Interface Type - A type of interface, a host may contain multiple instances of each interface type. (Eg. physical_interface, temperature sensor)
* Poller - A script that when given a paramerter (what to poll) will return a single value. (Eg. There is a single snmp poller which when passed an OID will return it's current value)
* Poller Item - A defination of how to get a specific parameter for an Interface by using a poller (Eg. The "Bytes In" poller item uses the snmp poller and provides it the OID to fetch the bytes in value for a specific interface.)
* Poller Group - A group of poller items which collect and store all the stats relating to an Interface Type.
