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Re: Writable SNMP
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 12:53:01 -0500
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Keegan Holley <keegan.holley () sungard com> wrote:
It was more curiosity. I'm looking in to scripting and starting to get tired of having to account for ssh/telnet, credentials, differences in
'write a library'... someone once said.
platforms and code from the same vendor and my various failed attempts to do all of the above. Most of the automation suites I've seen work via logins, rancid,HP NA etc etc. Although there are better programmers that can and have made it work it still seems cumbersome to me. I've pretty much made the
it is, somewhat, yes.
assumption that writable SNMP was a bad idea but have never actually tried it. I was curious what others were using, netconf or just scripted logins. I'm also fighting a losing battle to convince people that netconf isn't evil. It strikes me as odd that if I wanted to talk to a database/website full of credit card and billing info there's a long list of API's I could use, but if I wanted to talk to the router or firewall in front of it I can only use ssh or telnet.
sad, right? there are millions of restful program writers, only a few thousand network device programmers, and the vast majority of 'network management' is done by people perfectly happy with 'cisco-works' :(
Current thread:
- Re: Writable SNMP, (continued)
- Re: Writable SNMP Christopher Morrow (Dec 06)
- Re: Writable SNMP Keegan Holley (Dec 07)
- Re: Writable SNMP Christopher Morrow (Dec 07)
- Re: Writable SNMP Keegan Holley (Dec 09)
- Re: Writable SNMP Jared Mauch (Dec 06)
- Re: Writable SNMP Dorian Kim (Dec 06)
- Re: Writable SNMP Christopher Morrow (Dec 06)
- Re: Writable SNMP Wes Hardaker (Dec 06)
- Re: Writable SNMP Christopher Morrow (Dec 06)
- Re: Writable SNMP Keegan Holley (Dec 07)
- Re: Writable SNMP Christopher Morrow (Dec 07)
- Re: Writable SNMP Keegan Holley (Dec 09)
- Re: Writable SNMP Joel jaeggli (Dec 09)
- Re: Writable SNMP Keegan Holley (Dec 09)
- Re: Writable SNMP Blake Dunlap (Dec 06)
- Re: Writable SNMP Jared Mauch (Dec 06)
- Re: Writable SNMP Jethro R Binks (Dec 06)
- Re: Writable SNMP Christopher Morrow (Dec 06)