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Hari Sekhon hpsekhon at googlemail.com
Fri Feb 22 10:29:24 CET 2008


Marc Powell wrote:
> OMG. SNMP can be used to execute programs remotely and reboot machines.
> I'd avoid that at all costs, even if I needed to turn the machine off to
> not use it.
>
> I'm kidding of course but my point is that the tools are only as open as
> you make them.
>   
That's a good point of course, SNMP is no panacea, it can also do many 
things, but I think there are a lot of environments that do
have SNMP but that may not have NRPE or NSCA running since SNMP seems to 
be quite widely used already.

-h

-- 
Hari Sekhon


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