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Re: SNMP vs. agents (was: [SAGE] zenoss versus nagios)

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Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 07:53:32 -0500
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On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:12:27PM -0500, David Magda wrote:

On a related note: do people find SNMP or agent-based systems "better"? Or,what are the trade-offs between the two?


I think the beauty of SNMP is that it gives you a proven agent for all
devices on your network.  If your monitoring and alerting service uses
SNMP then your setup or migration is that much easier.  My only current
gripe about SNMP is actually directed at the vendors who still offer
little support for SNMPv3 even though its been around for years.

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