I has wondered that same thing, when I read Garrett's message last night. I 
almost replied immediately asking the same thing. Them I realized that Solaris 
snmp is different in lots of ways which means you can't just drop-in replace 
net-snmp. Unfortunately, snmp has always been a bit of voodoo to me (I know how 
it works and why, but I've never comfortably mastered making it work). 
Otherwise I'd be interested in biting at this problem, as the incompatibilities 
between implementations have gnawed at me for literally years. Of course, some 
of that may just be that snmpd has suffered from the traditional "it just never 
got updated enough to keep up with other implementations" thing and that most 
incompatibilities are no more than percieved. If someone very knowledgeable 
about Sun's snmpd as well as, say, net-snmp can start a list of known 
differences (and perhaps mark where each implementation is clearly superior), 
it may help whoever ends up tackling this. (The site has a wiki, right? I've 
not tried hitting it from my phone yet.) --Matt Sent from my HTC Touch Pro2 on 
the Now Network from Sprint®.


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Tribble
Sent: 8/7/2010 8:07:21 PM
To: Garrett D'Amore
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [illumos-Discuss] interesting projects available
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Garrett D'Amore <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here's some of the closed bits. I'm not sure we need them all:
>
> a) snmpd

Why not simply use net-snmp? Do we need anything else?

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