[147262] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Writable SNMP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blake Dunlap)
Tue Dec 6 13:44:04 2011
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1112061225380.20786@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
From: Blake Dunlap <ikiris@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 12:42:48 -0600
To: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Yes, Site Mangler. Do not stir that nest. Thar be dragons.
-Blake
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:35, Justin M. Streiner <streiner@cluebyfour.org>wrote:
> 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
>
>
