Jose, we are using read-only at our shop for monitoring and performance 
reports of WAN links. It gives enough info to be useful and by not 
setting the management software to read-write, it saves a lot of uh-ohs. 
Read-write (in my opinion) should be for special utilities......

Quezada, Jose L wrote:

>Hello all,
>       I have some doubts regarding SNMP. What exactly does SNMP read-only
>give you? I believe it has to do with the MIB's, but considering Catalyst
>5000 switches, what can you do with SNMP read-only and what requires
>read-write. 
>
>       Also, if I want to only monitor the network from a NMS, is SNMP
>read-only sufficient or do I also have to enable some traps. Can I have SNMP
>read-only without any traps being enabled?
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Joe Quezada




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