assumption that writable SNMP was a bad idea but have never actually tried it. I was curious what others were using, netconf or just scripted logins. I'm also fighting a losing battle to convince people that netconf isn't evil. It strikes me as odd that if I wanted to talk to a database/website full of credit card and billing info there's a long list of API's I could use, but if I wanted to talk to the router or firewall in front of it I can only use ssh or telnet.
sad, right? there are millions of restful program writers, only a few thousand network device programmers, and the vast majority of 'network management' is done by people perfectly happy with 'cisco-works' :(
according to the law of supply and demand, that would be.... demand? right? ;)