Agreed. And it REALLY isn't that complicated. Go spend some time with CORBA or TL-1 and then re-evaluate the learning curve. SNMP is really very straight forward as a protocol. If a specific vendor's MIB is difficult to understand or use, that is an entirely different matter. -Scott -----Original Message----- From: Phil Regnauld [mailto:regnauld@nsrc.org] Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 5:14 PM To: Curtis Maurand Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Monitoring Tools Curtis Maurand (cmaurand) writes:
Oh, and it avoided us having to install an agent on 1000+ servers :)
But the configuration learning curve for SNMP is very steep indeed.
Doing network monitoring and not understanding SNMP is like, umm, well I fail to come up with an analogy, but you get my drift. :) It's a bullet you'll have to bite at one point.