On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 15:10, Visser, Martin wrote:
> I am long-time user of SNMP, so it is one of the alternatives I had been
> thinking about, and haven't discounted it.

Hope I didn't come across as too condescending, then. :-)

>  (The net-snmp toolkit is
> great for scripting small bespoke network monitoring tasks). I'm just
> not sure whether contructing my own SNMP OID tree is going to be a
> little painful, and possibly a little constraining. (For instance, I
> might want to be able to upload shell scripts in my messages).

Eeep.

The pain is inversely proportional to your level of constraint.  It's
probably also an exponential relationship. :-)
Constructing your own OID tree isn't especially difficult, but ours is
only really running a bunch of monitoring scripts.

Things like one-off scripts would be better handled with something like
dsh, for example (http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/dsh.html). 
But I guess having it all wrapped up in one package would be much less
convoluted. Back to drawing board for me..

-- 
Pete

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