Re: [SAGE] Re: SNMP vs. agents

[Neil Watson <sage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 06:47:18PM +0100, Roman Hochuli wrote:
> > I think the beauty of SNMP is that it gives you a proven agent for all
> > devices on your network. 
>
> Hmm. I guess I have seen too much error-prone or defective SNMP-agents
> to second that... :-/

Perhaps I should revise that statement to SNMP gives you a proven agent
for most devices.

One thing to note when choosing a monitoring and/or reporting SLA system
is to clearly define your requirements.  Often people try to choose the
biggest super fantastic everything system which ends up taking more time
to configure and maintain than they spend actually monitoring and
reporting.  

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