On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 02:07:28PM +0100, Johan Bosaeus wrote:
>We are considering to to implement an improved Syslog. Does anybody have any opinion 
>of in which aspects the Syslog facility will outperform SNMP.

simplicity....but that comes at a high price.

Typcially on network gear the two systems are still
used in parallel.

syslog is presently used for vendor/platform specific
debug and notification messages.

SNMP is used for platform and vendor independent
standard notifications (v1/v2 traps, informs)
acked and non-acked forms which can be passed through
VACM (involved filtering mechanism)
to send different notifications to different receivers
as well as send such notifications
with/without authentication and/or encryption. Also works
through one or more snmp proxies.

Mike MacFaden


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