[58560] in North American Network Operators' Group
Transparent SNMP cache?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Binderberger)
Wed May 21 05:24:39 2003
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 11:27:20 +0200
From: Marc Binderberger <marc@sniff.de>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Hello,
looking at the growing number of SNMP polling systems and the "gap"
between network- and server-engineering we start worrying about the
load SNMP may cause on our Cisco CPUs. A few routers/switches died in
the past because of SMARTS or HP-OV running wild.
Instead of having many systems polling the same data I would like to
see a SNMP cache which works similar to transparent proxies - picks up
the request on the fly and answers on behalf of the router unless the
cached data is aged out (e.g. 3-5 minutes).
Does something similar exists? Feedback from our server folks is
"doesn't exist, never seen this" but I can't believe we are the only
one having this idea and looking for a solution.
Or is my idea totally flawed? ;-)
Thanks & Regards,
Marc
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