[147345] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Writable SNMP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Wed Dec 7 12:54:10 2011
In-Reply-To: <CABO8Q6TsZssYOBGoWXcaxBB3SnNkDsaK48EG0Zq6uEt9uZj+aw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 12:53:01 -0500
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Keegan Holley <keegan.holley@sungard.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Keegan Holley
<keegan.holley@sungard.com> wrote:
> It was more curiosity. =A0I'm looking in to scripting and starting to get
> tired of having to account for ssh/telnet, credentials, differences in
'write a library'... someone once said.
> platforms and code from the same vendor and my various failed attempts to=
do
> all of the above. =A0Most of the automation suites I've seen work via log=
ins,
> rancid,HP NA etc etc. =A0Although there are better programmers that can a=
nd
> have made it work it still seems cumbersome to me. I've pretty much made =
the
it is, somewhat, yes.
> assumption that writable SNMP was a bad idea but have never actually trie=
d
> it. =A0I was curious what others were using, netconf or just scripted log=
ins.
> I'm also fighting a losing battle to convince people that netconf isn't
> evil. =A0It strikes me as odd that if I wanted to talk to a database/webs=
ite
> full of credit card and billing info there's a long list of API's I could
> use, but if I wanted to talk to the router or firewall in front of it I c=
an
> only use ssh or telnet.
sad, right? there are millions of restful program writers, only a few
thousand network device programmers, and the vast majority of 'network
management' is done by people perfectly happy with 'cisco-works' :(
