Re: a different view of SNMP

["Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr () baby-dragons com>]

        Helo Bryan ,

On Sun, 5 Sep 1999 bandregg () redhat com wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Sep 1999 19:49:14 PDT, "Ron Buchalski" wrote: 
> > > I sometimes wonder why Wellfleet nee Bay nee Nortel haven't already
> > > taken over most of Cisco's market share for this reason given their
> > > almost total embracement of SNMP for configuration and management.
> > > Sure, they did leave a wide market niche for third party font-end tools
> > > that actually worked, but at least they embraced the standards!  :-)

> > Well, could it be because Cisco routers _work_?  :-)

> Or that you don't have to use that piece of crap called Configuration Mangler 
> to deal with the thing and then pay for upgrades to a version of configuration 
> software that doesn't leave the equipment in a bad state.

        Now that Nortel is in charge that is the case 'pay pay pay'
        When I worked at NWRain.net we had a BLN in use .  When it
        was put into service the way to get SMxxx was to just ftp
        to their site & grab the latest 'production' version .
        If you had a Maint. Contract just call & ask for the lastest
        service group patched version ... that of course was before
        Nortel started providing 'Improved' services to it customers .
                Jusy My ~.03 worth ,  JimL
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