[147257] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Writable SNMP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Tue Dec 6 12:36:49 2011
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 12:35:35 -0500 (EST)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <CDEE94CC-4811-4B20-AC94-BD8E5C710F4F@puck.nether.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 6 Dec 2011, Jared Mauch wrote:
> I recall some bay networks gear you could only program with the proper OID
> as the cli was basically a SNMP-SET operation on the device.
The mere mention of Bay Networks and Site Manager (read: Site Mangler or
Site Damager) is enough to get my blood pressure up a few points, and I
haven't touched that stuff since probably 1999 or 2000. The CLI was quite
horrible, and their somewhat IOS-like command shell (BCC) was not much
better.
> Have you had a good experience with using SNMP-Write? I have not.
The most I've done using SNMP SETs is backed up configurations from
network devices at my old job. That part worked (and works) very well,
but I never tried pushing config changes out to devices that way.
jms
