[147427] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Writable SNMP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keegan Holley)
Fri Dec 9 21:24:26 2011
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From: Keegan Holley <keegan.holley@sungard.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 21:22:40 -0500
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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>
> > assumption that writable SNMP was a bad idea but have never actually
> tried
> > it. I was curious what others were using, netconf or just scripted
> logins.
> > I'm also fighting a losing battle to convince people that netconf isn't
> > evil. It strikes me as odd that if I wanted to talk to a
> database/website
> > 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
> can
> > 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' :(
>
>
according to the law of supply and demand, that would be.... demand? right?
;)
