Re: SNMPv2C/SNMPv2U

Peter Polkinghorne (Peter.Polkinghorne@brunel.ac.uk)
Wed, 21 May 1997 09:06:42 +0100

> From owner-tkined@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Tue May 20 11:49:55 1997
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> From: Peter Polkinghorne <Peter.Polkinghorne@brunel.ac.uk>
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> Also do not forget tkined/scotty can act as an agent (see snmp(n)). Depending
> on your platform I would also look to CMU and UCD distributions which work
> with various Unix platforms.
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> Why would anyone work from the CMU or UCSD distributions
> rather than Scotty? I haven't done any *serious* agents,
> ones for which outsiders pay, but Scotty has certainly
> been up to everything I've asked it to do on our WAN. I
> find it more reliable and more convenient than CMU; what
> does it lack?
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I agree for developing agents, scotty is fine - I have done so myself, but for
an off the shelf MIB-2 agent UCD and some of the various incarnations of CMU
(of which UCD is one) have done the work already and work fine in my
experience.

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