[50033] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: No one behind the wheel at WorldCom
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Tue Jul 16 01:52:28 2002
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 01:51:59 -0400
Cc: msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com, nanog@merit.edu
To: Pedro R Marques <roque@sbcglobal.net>
From: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>
In-Reply-To: <3D33C0CD.2040600@sbcglobal.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at 02:44 , Pedro R Marques wrote:
> I would be inclined to agree with your statement that the major blame
> should lie on "router vendors" if you see your router vendor as
> someone that sells you the network elements + the NMS to manage it.
The NMS for the vast majority of network operators is "telnet",
occasionally augmented with "syslog".
> But in my guestimate the focal point of our search for a culprit
> should be the NMS or the NMS -> router management mechanism. Idealy
> the latter should be more computer friendly than text parsing.
Amen to that.
Joe
