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From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu ("Louis A. Mamakos")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.proteon
Subject: Re: Overview Problem
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Date: 17 Oct 90 11:42:05 GMT
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I could begin a minor flame about how the Overview product hasn't been
supported by Proteon with any maintainance releases since its
inception, but I suspect that you all know that.

The one fatal problem that we have discovered which is going to cause
us to abandon use of our Overview is that it cannot deal with routers
which have more than 16 interfaces.  I'm not sure of the specifics of
how it looses its cookies, but it fails hard when it does.  And it
does fairly quickly.  Perhaps this is your problem.  We have to use
PING to montior those routers (cisco AGS+ routers) rather than SNMP,
and that's not nearly as useful.

We are currently looking for more robust, supported, UNIX based SNMP
monitoring platforms for our NOC.  I'm glad that we don't pay for
software maintenance on the Overview product given the non-existant
level of support for it.

louie