Yeah, this is true.
Of-course if there is a problem with vendor's agent module he will need to
contact them for assistance.
Thanks for your reply.
Cheers,
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Dave Shield <d.t.shi...@liverpool.ac.uk>wrote:
> On 9 March 2011 13:59, Ashwin Kumar <ashwinkumar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Out of curiosity I am asking this.
> > Dave, can't we use vendor specific agents with Net-SNMP?
>
> Yes - of course you can.
> You can mix and match the providers of the various tools,
> and Everything Should Just Work.
> That's the whole point of having network standards.
>
>
>
> > Suppose I have an agent of CISCO router and I wish to monitor it,
> > Will I not be able to place the MIB from CISCO and configure
> > the agent with Net-SNMP?
>
> Yes - that will work.
>
> But if you discovered a problem with the Cisco agent,
> then you would need to talk to Cisco about this.
> We can't help with debugging somebody else's software.
>
>
> That's the situation that Matty is in.
>
> Dave
>
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