On Fri, Sep 14, 2001, Andres Kroonmaa wrote:
> > will have a scripting language to write management modules in,
> > and these could easily be adapted to use HTTP.
>
> ;) you don't trust any NMS it seems. Means only that given NMS is
> not worth its salt if you have to write modules yourself ;)
Oh, then you like paying $$$ to the NMS guys to write modules to
get the extra info you wanted? :)
> > *AND* (heh), I'm actually of the opinion that SNMP should be implemented
> > as an external process which can nab the information out of squid via
> > HTTP. Its a nice, clean, enforced abstraction.
>
> hmm. clean?
Right now the SNMP code puts its fingers into the squid code.
I don't think thats right.
> Actually, I don't have any problem with snmp vs http. SNMP tends to
> be slower via udp. And it has its problems. I've just seen some good
> stuff basing all its configs on SNMP, even on console, and it seems
> simple and modular way of managing binary configs on a running system.
> It just popped into my head as a first thing ;)
>
Its only slower because you're used to SNMPv1 and GETNEXT for walking
SNMPv2 has a nicer way of extracting tables of values, which makes
things faster.
Adrian
Received on Fri Sep 14 2001 - 04:08:34 MDT
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