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Re: Writable SNMP

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jethro R Binks)
Tue Dec 6 14:57:38 2011

Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 19:56:38 +0000 (GMT)
From: Jethro R Binks <jethro.binks@strath.ac.uk>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Tue, 6 Dec 2011, Jeff Wheeler wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Keegan Holley
> <keegan.holley@sungard.com> wrote:
> > For a few years now I been wondering why more networks do not use writable
> > SNMP.  Most automation solutions actually script a login to the various
> 
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> Juniper does not support writing via SNMP.  I am glad.  Hopefully that
> is the first step toward not supporting SNMP at all.

So what are the alternatives these days then for automation or batch 
operations?

clogin etc from shrubbery's rancid?

Net::Appliance::Session

... ?


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