Re: Writable SNMP

[Joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On 12/9/11 18:22 , Keegan Holley wrote:
> > > 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.

http://www.juniper.net/support/products/netconf/

> > 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?
> ;)