RE: PROPOSAL: Standard SNMP Agent Daemon?

["Cagle, John" <John.Cagle@COMPAQ.com>]

I wasn't trying to specify anything more than having a standard snmpd that
is extensible and allows, for instance, a hardware manufacturer to supply a
compatible sub-agent to enable manageability for their piece of hardware.

For instance, Intel could provide an SNMP agent to allow management of their
NICs, and 3Com could provide an agent to allow management of *their* NICs,
and the two agents could co-exist on the same machine.  Today, not all
distributions have the same snmpd, so one sub-agent will not run on all
Linux systems.

Also, as Wichert has hinted at, this may be more appropriate for a future
version of LSB.  That's fine with me.  Does a working version of a 'futures'
LSB exist?

Thanks,
John Cagle

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Troan [mailto:ewt@redhat.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 7:39 PM
> To: Cagle, John
> Cc: 'lsb-spec@lists.linuxbase.org'
> Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: Standard SNMP Agent Daemon?
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Cagle, John wrote:
> 
> > I apologize in advance if this has been discussed 
> previously, but it sure
> > would be nice to have a standard SNMP Agent included with 
> an LSB-compliant
> > distribution.
> 
> I don't think we want to require all LSB systems to run SNMP 
> clients. An
> add-on spec for a minimal LSB-compliant MIB makes a lot of 
> sense though.
> 
> Erik
>