Re: SNMP agents for mobile telecom infrastructure

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From	eravin@panix.com (Ed Ravin)
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Subject	Re: SNMP agents for mobile telecom infrastructure
Date	Sat, 6 Jul 2013 23:17:21 +0000 (UTC)
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From somewhere in cyberspace, NetEd <edzietarski@hotmail.com> said:
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>For a mobile telecoms operator's point of view, is it better to have
>two separate SNMP agents, one for the standard basic Linux node and
>one for the telecoms software, or is it preferable to incorporate both
>into a single SNMP agent?

It depends on your requirements.

The arguments in favor of using a single SNMP agent:
* uses stock startup settings - no new daemon to add to node
* easier to configure the monitoring systems - everything uses port 161
* simpler firewall / iptables configuration

But there are also arguments against it:
* application MIB code could cause snmpd to slow down or stall,
interfering with data collection from the system MIBs
* possible difficulty when upgrading Linux software on node - future
changes in snmpd might require re-integration effort
* easier to swap out SNMP daemon if you decide the application MIB needs
to built on a different software platform

Since you're already installing your application on the Linux nodes, it
should not be that much extra work to install a 2nd SNMP daemon for the
application MIB.  That would probably be more managable in the long run.
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SNMP agents for mobile telecom infrastructure NetEd <edzietarski@hotmail.com> - 2013-05-20 09:00 -0700
  Re: SNMP agents for mobile telecom infrastructure eravin@panix.com (Ed Ravin) - 2013-07-06 23:17 +0000
    Re: SNMP agents for mobile telecom infrastructure Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2013-07-07 12:47 -0500

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