It's just the BRIGHT example when usage SNMP did not allow to create friendly configuration interface - all network admins here hate WellFleet for their confih methods and was happy to return back to CLI when they realised it' The first words they have saying when learned CISCO was _ohh, at least no GUI and SNMP!_ -:) In comparasion, all hare use WWW interface CISCO implemented into their Catalist 19xx and 29xx series withouth complains and angry words... -:) The reason - WWW is _SELF-DEFINED and SELF-HELPED_ protocol (sorry for the wrong english usage), SNMP with GUI are not at all... Thus, not everything us so easy to explain... Alex. On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Greg A. Woods wrote:
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 16:51:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Greg A. Woods <woods@most.weird.com> To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: a different view of SNMP
[ On Saturday, September 4, 1999 at 13:36:03 (-0700), Jerry Scharf wrote: ]
Subject: a different view of SNMP
The bad news is that very few people in the network management world, either within Cisco or elsewhere, believe this in any way. The only way for this to become real is for a significant number of major customers to demand this and make this a requirement of doing business with Cisco. When mo demands that Cisco do SNMPV3, they listen. When people start putting business on the line for this kind of thing, they will listen too.
I sometimes wonder why Wellfleet nee Bay nee Nortel haven't already taken over most of Cisco's market share for this reason given their almost total embracement of SNMP for configuration and management. Sure, they did leave a wide market niche for third party font-end tools that actually worked, but at least they embraced the standards! :-)
-- Greg A. Woods
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