>Is net-snmp stable and reliable enough to use in a high-reliability embedded system?
Your mileage may vary. Certainly there's plenty of people using it day-to-day who are knowledgeable enough to spot obvious problems and willing to comment about them. Hence... >I've seen many mails mentioning crashes and memory leaks. Looks like these are usually development problems. Can we expect a typical net-snmp system to run for years under normal conditions? Certainly there's lots of crashes with new code. As you've noticed, these tend to work out. I personally haven't had the experience of running it for years because I tend to upgrade for new features (or write them myself). Nevertheless, I don't see why it shouldn't. Your mileage may vary. >Is net-snmp generally considered competitive with commercial vendors for developing commercial systems? My experience is with Sun products. They have adopted net-snmp and contributed code. >I know LINUX is now being positioned that way, with resellers doing packaging, testing, and support for real time systems. Is anyone doing this or planning this for net-snmp? (pass) >One more high-level thing: Why are you doing this? What motivates all this work on SNMP? How do you make a living on it? (Forgive me if I'm being crass, mentioning profitability here. I'm still new to open source!) I need it. It's as simple as that. My job is to maintain UNIX servers. I can't be running around building to building staring at monitors. I can't be constantly logging in checking and checking things. I need a way to monitor them quickly, efficiently and quietly. My vendor's product was IMHO bloated, broken and lacking features. My boss wanted the system to "make my cell phone ring if a fan blows". The vendor's product wouldn't do that, so I wrote the damn thing myself. Net-snmp gave me the framework, I just had to contribute my proprietary code. I get paid to keep the servers running. My employers were originally hostile to open source until they didn't have any choice - no vendor was supplying what they wanted (in that case, SAMBA). Now (judging from the noise in the press), it's the wave of the future. Everybody's using it because everybody's using it. The development process is open to scrutiny; download the source and read it, compile the thing for yourself, subscribe to the mailing lists and watch the fur fly. If it's busted, fix it. This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential, personal and or privileged information. Please contact us immediately if you are not the intended recipient of this communication, and do not copy, distribute, or take action relying on it. Any communication received in error, or subsequent reply, should be deleted or destroyed. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users
