I'm a newbie to SNMP, Tcl/tk, snmptcl and Scotty/tkined, and I'm confused
and curious about the differences between the latter two.
I've just got a copy of the Network Management Practicum ("Managing your
network using SNMP" by McCloghrie and Rose) and one of the first things I
noticed was that the book describes various public SNMP implementations
including the TUDelft stuff (BTNG, Tricklet, Fergie & Gobbler), CMU SNMP,
NOCOL, and snmptcl, but omits mention of the scotty/tkined stuff from
TUBraunschweig. The book is (c) 1995 and I think Scotty/tkined has been
around longer than that so I'm curious why there's no mention of it? (Is
there some politics behind this?)
Anyhow my main queries are about how the two compare?
* Being an SNMP and Tcl/tk newbie the code examples in the book are still
a bit opaque to me, and I can't see if (or how easily) they could be
adapted to use Scotty, if I wanted to do that.
I already have Scotty/tkined installed, running and doing some
useful stuff on my NMS workstation and I'm reluctant to risk breaking it
by trying to change to something different.
* If I did change to snmptcl what would I gain and/or lose compared to
Scotty/tkined?
My crude, arm-waving understanding is that snmptcl is 'just' the
Tcl/tk<->SNMP API, for which I would have to write my own Network
Management application code - of which the examples in the book and
contributed by others should be available somewhere - whereas Scotty and
particularly tkined are more like an NMS application already, with such
things as network discovery already implemented.
* Could I run both snmptcl and Scotty/tkined together?
From discussions on the tkined list I gather that running multiple
extensions to Tcl/tk is non-trivial to set up.
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John Stumbles j.d.stumbles@reading.ac.uk
Computer Services, University of Reading http://www.rdg.ac.uk/~suqstmbl
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