[192797] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SFP DOM SNMP Polling?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mel Beckman)
Tue Nov 22 10:00:35 2016
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From: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
To: Tim Durack <tdurack@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 15:00:31 +0000
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-mel beckman
> On Nov 22, 2016, at 6:57 AM, Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org> wrote:
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> Seems bogus to me. I can't imagine why realtime stats would be in flash r=
ather than RAM. In fact, that can't be the case: they have to update the st=
ats many more times per second than SNMP would poll them.=20
>=20
> -mel beckman
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>> On Nov 22, 2016, at 6:33 AM, Tim Durack <tdurack@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I have a vendor that does not support SFP DOM SNMP polling. They state t=
his
>> is due to EEPROM read life cycle. Constant reads will damage the SFP.
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>> We SNMP poll SFP DOM from Cisco equipment without issue.
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>> Not heard this one before. Trying to see if there is some validity to th=
e
>> statement. Thoughts?
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>> Tim:>
