[96412] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Palmer)
Wed May 9 01:29:21 2007
Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 15:28:13 +1000
From: Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <46413BC0.9020609@velvet.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:10:56PM -0700, matthew zeier wrote:
> >>and
> >>more to the point how the whole shebang (I'm using net-snmpd) is
> >>typically used.
> >
> >Agent on device provides values, management app(s) collect data by polling
> >(and possibly via traps), sysadmin gets to go home on time for once.
>
> I have yet to see this work in practice however.
Yeah, I misread 'typically' as 'theoretically'. Practical experience is
more like:
Agent on device lies about it's values, management apps collect lies (and
ignore/lose traps), and the sysadmin has yet more software to swear at.
<grin>
- Matt
--
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