On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 17:28 -0800, rwilcox wrote: > some of the research has suggested that WSDM may > replace SNMP. I was wondering what the groups > thoughts were on WSDM. Is it just a fad? Do you > think it will replace SNMP?
I suspect that the answer you'll get to those questions will depend very much on which group you ask it to :-) The WSDM people are hardly going to say that WSDM is a fad, while SNMP people are unlikely to say that WSDM will replace SNMP! I'm solidly in the SNMP camp, so that will doubtless colour my perception, and I haven't really looked at WSDM in particular. But there have been various Web-based management mechanisms touted as "replacements" for SNMP, and it hasn't happened yet. It strikes me that Web-based management and SNMP are typically aimed at somewhat different target audiences, and provide *complementary* rather than competing mechanisms. Web-based interfaces are certainly easier to use than raw SNMP, so are the obvious approach for direct human interaction. This has become increasingly widespread over the last few years, on an ever-widening variety of network equipment. But the interface provided is invariably different from one manufacturer to the next (and often within various different offerings from the same manufacturer). SNMP provides a clear, well-defined and fairly standard framework for structuring and operating on management information. So it's proved useful for automatic management, where it's a program that's querying the box, rather than a person. Whether that be automatic stats monitoring (MRTG, et al), or a network management console, or whatever. It typically involves more effort to construct an appropriate front-end tool, but that tool can then be used more widely, often with equipment from assorted manufacturers. Now I haven't looked sufficiently at WSDM to know whether they have addresses this problem of a standardised framework for management information. So the above may not be directly relevant in this case. But fundamentally, network management is about *information* - the mechanisms and protocols used to retrieve or manipulate that information are secondary. That's my take on it, anyway. Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list Net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users
