19 Aug
2010
19 Aug
'10
4:36 p.m.
On 8/19/2010 4:23 PM, Phil Regnauld wrote:
<hat employer=other> While developing our own monitoring product, we've had to deal with various constraints from the customer side, for instance pharmaceutical companies where there was no way installing an agent on PLC machines would pass internal audit, without having the entire system re-validated (we're talking FDA-validated medication production here). </hat>
But often, SNMPD ships with or is available as an optional base component (Windows, most UNIXes) and it's easier to convince the IT suits. Go figure.
Oh, and it avoided us having to install an agent on 1000+ servers :)
But the configuration learning curve for SNMP is very steep indeed. --Curtis