Re: Bug #67746
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 01:29:09PM -0400, Gerhard Poul wrote:
> > Correct. In fact, I didn't think people were using much more than
> > snmpd.
>
> I don't want to blame _anyone_ for this. I just want to discuss that
> issue to make debian better in the future.
>
> How do you think people get the information from snmpd if they don't
> use the other utilities like snmpget and snmpwalk? We have many
> internal applications running who use these utilities extensively and
> they have been modified now but I don't want to do that again :-)
IMHO, the snmpget, snmpwalk, etc., utilities are best used for testing
and debugging agents. If you wan to do real network management, you
should probably be using scotty, perl-snmp or something similar which
provide programatic support. Of course, I'm biased since I developed
commercial SNMP agents for the last 10 years.
David
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