[147429] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Writable SNMP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keegan Holley)
Fri Dec 9 21:29:41 2011
In-Reply-To: <4EE2C330.2090907@bogus.com>
From: Keegan Holley <keegan.holley@sungard.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 21:28:05 -0500
To: Joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
2011/12/9 Joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
> On 12/9/11 18:22 , Keegan Holley wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> 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.
>
> http://www.juniper.net/support/products/netconf/
>
+1
sadly there are still those that think netconf is black magic hacker voodo
though
