[128905] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Monitoring Tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Maurand)
Thu Aug 19 16:36:30 2010
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:36:13 -0400
From: Curtis Maurand <cmaurand@xyonet.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20100819202343.GC86400@macbook.catpipe.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 8/19/2010 4:23 PM, Phil Regnauld wrote:
>
> <hat employer=other>
> While developing our own monitoring product, we've had to deal with
> various constraints from the customer side, for instance pharmaceutical
> companies where there was no way installing an agent on PLC machines would
> pass internal audit, without having the entire system re-validated (we're
> talking FDA-validated medication production here).
> </hat>
>
> But often, SNMPD ships with or is available as an optional base
> component (Windows, most UNIXes) and it's easier to convince the IT
> suits. Go figure.
>
> Oh, and it avoided us having to install an agent on 1000+ servers :)
>
But the configuration learning curve for SNMP is very steep indeed.
--Curtis
