On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Kyle Schmitt <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
It should be fine for polling stats. For event notification via traps/notify, be aware that it uses UDP, which has no guarantee of packet delivery. If you plan on using it to control things, either use SNMPv3 or don't use SNMP at all. I spent a few years maintaining the SNMP agent for a network appliance, and based on that I'd say it is surprisingly widely used. Especially in Japan for some reason... ~Ryan -- http://rmgraham.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
