[128907] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Monitoring Tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Berkman)
Thu Aug 19 17:47:00 2010
From: "Scott Berkman" <scott@sberkman.net>
To: "'Phil Regnauld'" <regnauld@nsrc.org>,
"'Curtis Maurand'" <cmaurand@xyonet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100819211336.GA86701@macbook.catpipe.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:46:51 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Agreed. And it REALLY isn't that complicated. Go spend some time with
CORBA or TL-1 and then re-evaluate the learning curve.
SNMP is really very straight forward as a protocol. If a specific vendor's
MIB is difficult to understand or use, that is an entirely different matter.
-Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Regnauld [mailto:regnauld@nsrc.org]
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 5:14 PM
To: Curtis Maurand
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Monitoring Tools
Curtis Maurand (cmaurand) writes:
> > Oh, and it avoided us having to install an agent on 1000+ servers :)
> >
> But the configuration learning curve for SNMP is very steep indeed.
Doing network monitoring and not understanding SNMP is like,
umm, well I fail to come up with an analogy, but you get my drift.
:)
It's a bullet you'll have to bite at one point.
