[192796] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SFP DOM SNMP Polling?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mel Beckman)
Tue Nov 22 09:56:45 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
To: Tim Durack <tdurack@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 14:56:37 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CAE_ug16i-K4fa3_oFgTSA3JuqkD5-RCk4-UCKPBkMWCRcLJgdA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>,
"cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net" <cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net>
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Seems bogus to me. I can't imagine why realtime stats would be in flash rat=
her than RAM. In fact, that can't be the case: they have to update the stat=
s many more times per second than SNMP would poll them.=20
-mel beckman
> On Nov 22, 2016, at 6:33 AM, Tim Durack <tdurack@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> I have a vendor that does not support SFP DOM SNMP polling. They state th=
is
> is due to EEPROM read life cycle. Constant reads will damage the SFP.
>=20
> We SNMP poll SFP DOM from Cisco equipment without issue.
>=20
> Not heard this one before. Trying to see if there is some validity to the
> statement. Thoughts?
>=20
> Tim:>
