I was looking at getting some sort of company-wide monitoring software (possibly with some level of system control). Most things I've come across are using some mix of SNMP & custom agents loaded on each and every system. If you pare it all down, it seems that nagios, zenoss and anything else worth mentioning, are pretty faces on a mix of SNMP and little agents.
With that in mind, is SNMP worth the trouble as a protocol? Forget which pretty face it wears. I've always shied away from SNMP (with small number of servers it didn't make sense), so I've got no practical experience with it. Is it too much of a hassle for the risk? Are the rewards of using it that great? It seems that two weeks can't go without reading about an SNMP vulnerability, but at the same time, many packages, and IT departments, rely on it, even if they don't know it. Thanks for any advice, --Kyle PS: Yes I have some monitoring system in place now: it's a mix of home grown agents and syslog. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
