>>>>> On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 07:41:40 -0800 (PST), rwilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said:
rwilcox> --- PAUL WILLIAMSON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: rwilcox> Actually, it is my understanding that Cisco has rwilcox> got on the WSDM bandwagon. Considering your comments rwilcox> on Cisco and ssh2, I wonder how serious they are. rwilcox> Personally, I agree with you in that it seems very rwilcox> immature, but I hope to generate more discussion in rwilcox> this group. Ohhh.... if it were only so easy to predict the future. WSDM and similar technologies have seen some success on high end systems (read: servers, clients, but not routers, switches) and have had issues with interoperability between vendors. But you can do a lot more with it easily I think (I'm not an expert). SNMP is much more bare-bones but has, so far, done better with interoperability between vendors. Cisco is actually looking into netconf, which is sort of in between SNMP and WSDM in terms of complexity. Think raw simple XML over ssh. However, the lead netconf person there quit because of their lack of forward direction in that space. And the hard part of the netconf work (interoperable data models: kinda like the MIBs for SNMP) within the IETF is being tabled for the future. Thus, right now it's just a protocol with non-interoperable data being sent over it. Not a big win. And don't get me started on the security issues with it. You should know that you need to trust all your users to be equivalent (root). Meanwhile, many governments and other parts of the industry are actually spinning up, not down, on SNMP. Time will tell... -- Wes Hardaker Sparta, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
