Re: a different view of SNMP

["Alex P. Rudnev" <alex () Relcom EU net>]

It's _not the joke_ - a lot folks here prefere CISCO to WellFleet just 
because they dod not need to get GUI program, bring laptop with them and 
bother about upgrades. And _npw_ CISCO haveeasy WWW interface as the 
GUI-SNMP killer, as well.

Alex.

PS. BUt it's amazing - I thought everyone use the first september weekend 
to rest - it appear the people use this day to make a piece 
of philosophy -:).


On Sun, 5 Sep 1999 bandregg () redhat com wrote:

> Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 09:46:43 -0400
> From: bandregg () redhat com
> To: Ron Buchalski <rbuchals () hotmail com>
> Cc: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: a different view of SNMP 
>
>
> 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.
> -- 
>                  Bryan C. Andregg * <bandregg () redhat com> * Red Hat, Inc.
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