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<DIV>Thanks to JIim Mozley and MT Morales for advice about using Nagios agents
versus SNMP. Which is basically that SNMP has restrictions of
what can be monitored versus using Nagios agents - at least on servers.
(For routers etc, SNMP seems a good or only choice). </DIV>
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<DIV>From my research and experience, it also seems SNMP agents, the
SNMP agents also have at least these two additional issues:</DIV>
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<DIV>1) SNMP v1 and v2 have several known security issues (clear text community
strings, buffer overflow, patches etc)</DIV>
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<DIV>2) Object IDs can reindex when a server reboots, resulting in having to
reconfigure Nagios (which also happens when new devices are added)</DIV>
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<DIV>Any feedback on these last two?</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks</DIV>
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<DIV>Larry C</DIV></BODY></HTML>
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