Re: snmptcl v. scotty

Doug Hughes (Doug.Hughes@Eng.Auburn.EDU)
Wed, 17 Jul 1996 14:05:57 -0500

>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.
>
>

Depending on the name spaces (the commands used to invoke the SNMP -
I'm not that familiar with snmptcl), you might have conflicts. But
scotty has SNMP + a whole lot more. Why would you want to use a tool
that only does SNMP?

scotty, I think, has a lot more SNMP development towards SNMP2 and
variants as well, I believe.

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