[hobbit] Agentless clients

[Scott Walters]

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Buchan Milne wrote:

> > Almost 2 seconds there....and just for one command.
>
> I keep wondering how long the equivalent snmp query takes ... or in fact
> gathering all the data asynchronously via snmp ...

I've always thought that SNMP would be great for UNIX.  But everytime I
have ever tried to really make it work, it just doesn't.  snmp agent
issues, OID issues, polling issues, UDP network issues.

My previous experiences have been so heinous I can easily recognize my own
bias against SNMP for unix at this point.

But what is wierd is it works so well for comm/network equipment.

-- 
Scott Walters
-PacketPusher