Hello Richey:

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> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 4:38 PM
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> Subject: [c-nsp] Giving customers access to your gear.
> 
> I've got a customer with a T1.  They have been bought out by a large hotel
> chain.  They are pretty much demanding that they have SNMP full read access
> to our router that is at their location as well as a copy of the config for
> the router.   This is not their router, it is ours and we fully manage our
> router and hand them  Ethernet.     This seems a little odd that they want
> access to our gear, and I am not too keen on giving them access unless they
> are willing to accept some responsibility.   They don't want to accept any
> responsibility for the access they would have to this box.     They say that
> Verizion and AT&T don't have any problems giving them this kind of access to
> their gear.
> 
I think RO SNMP access is fine, and just make sure you sanitize the 
configuration of all "interesting" data like passwords, dynamic routing 
protocol configurations, etc.  If you are worried that SNMP access will create 
performance issues, draft up a letter for them to sign indicating that any 
outages or performance issues that are a result of SNMP polling will not be 
credited against the customer's SLA.

By the way, I'm assuming they are the only customer on this box.  If that is 
not the case then I would say no to unfiltered SNMP and the config file, 
indicating to them that the device terminates services for other customer and 
cannot therefore be shared with them.

Regards,

Mike

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