brown@wucs1.wustl.edu (Mike Brown) (02/12/91)
I recently learned that a major U.S. router vendor defines SNMP management as the ability to "monitor" their equipment via SNMP and not the configuration of the equipment via SNMP. I believe that I understand the security problems related to SNMP and why caution must be exercised with the use of SNMP to configure network elements. I still believe that SNMP can be an effective configuration mechanism in certain networks. My question is: Does any router vendor support configuration via SNMP? If you think I am naive for using SNMP to configure network elements then please let me know... Regards, Mike Brown Corporate Telecommunications Information Systems One Bell Center, Rm 24-V-5 Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. St. Louis, MO 63101 (314) 235-7863
barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) (02/13/91)
In article <1991Feb12.042501.6758@cec1.wustl.edu> brown@wucs1.wustl.edu (Mike Brown) writes: >My question is: Does any router vendor support configuration via SNMP? cisco routers appear to, although I haven't actually tried it. When you enable SNMP you can specify read-only or read-write on a per-community basis, and also specify an access list to restrict addresses from which each community name is valid. >If you think I am naive for using SNMP to configure network elements then >please let me know... It's still pretty early in the network management business, and many vendors are just starting to provide SNMP facilities. Some have jumped in feet first, while others are still unsure how it fits in. For instance, I don't think any Unix systems are yet shipping with SNMP support (luckily there are publically-available snmpd implementations, of various levels of quality). By the way, I've seen a couple of SNMP posts here recently. There is a mailing list snmp@nisc.psi.net on which SNMP is discussed; it includes both users and implementors. Send mail to snmp-request@nisc.psi.net to ask to be added. -- Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp. barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
vaf@Valinor.Stanford.EDU (Vince Fuller) (02/14/91)
In article <1991Feb13.062435.23866@Think.COM>, barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes: |> It's still pretty early in the network management business, and many |> vendors are just starting to provide SNMP facilities. Some have jumped in |> feet first, while others are still unsure how it fits in. For instance, I |> don't think any Unix systems are yet shipping with SNMP support (luckily |> there are publically-available snmpd implementations, of various levels of |> quality). The last part of this paragraph is no longer true - at least one Unix vendor, DEC, is shipping an SNMP agent as a standard daemon on all current systems (as of at least Ultrix 4.1, possibly since Ultrix 4.0). --Vince
ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) (02/15/91)
In article <1991Feb13.103034@Valinor.Stanford.EDU> vaf@Valinor.Stanford.EDU (Vince Fuller) writes: > >The last part of this paragraph is no longer true - at least one Unix >vendor, DEC, is shipping an SNMP agent as a standard daemon on all >current systems (as of at least Ultrix 4.1, possibly since Ultrix 4.0). > IBM ships SNMP for AIX on the RS/6000's. -- ken seefried iii "Specialization is for insects." ken@dali.cc.gatech.edu - Robert A. Heinlein (1916-1988)