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From: brown@wucs1.wustl.edu (Mike Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: SNMP "manageability" ?!?
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.042501.6758@cec1.wustl.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 91 04:25:01 GMT
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I recently learned that a major U.S. router vendor defines SNMP management
as the ability to "monitor" their equipment via SNMP and not the
configuration of the equipment via SNMP.  I believe that I understand
the security problems related to SNMP and why caution must be exercised
with the use of SNMP to configure network elements.  I still believe that
SNMP can be an effective configuration mechanism in certain networks.


My question is:  Does any router vendor support configuration via SNMP?

If you think I am naive for using SNMP to configure network elements then
please let me know...

	Regards,
	Mike Brown	Corporate Telecommunications
			Information Systems
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