On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 03:26:24PM +0000, Phil Mayers wrote: > On 11/12/15 15:11, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > > >I never ran into this, but it's not too surprising - I had unending > >problems with poor Q-BRIDGE-MIB. We used at least Junos, Procurve, and > >a few flavors of IOS 12. Only HP had a Q-BRIDGE-MIB that was correct > >enough to use - and if you poked it wrong, the switch would crash. > > Likewise, I've seen problems with the Q-BRIDGE on Extreme and Cisco. > I've always ended up using some vendor-specific method (except for > the pre-Huawei 3Com kit, which had excellent SNMP support in full > standards compliance AFAICT). > > >On Junos, I got sick of all this and switched to netconf. > > +1 (though Junoscript, in my case) > > ssh admin@switch 'show ethernet-switching table | display xml' > > ...is always the poor-mans version ;o) > > SNMP was an impressive effort for its time, and it could have been > great, but it's getting less and less usable as vendors pay less and > less attention to it. I've seen a number of devices from a number of > vendors get *worse* SNMP support over the last couple of years / > software releases. > > In addition for something like the P/Q bridge FDB, the requirement > for the table to be sorted by OID can often be a substantial CPU > impact, as naive implementations sort the table on every getnext.
For those of us who wish to/need to use commercial NMS software, are there any that support NETCONF? And NETCONF isn't the answer yet anyway to cross-vendor standardization, at least not until standard YANG models are developed. At least Q-BRIDGE-MIB exists as a standard. Here are some commercial NMS products that we've looked at that we would like to get working with our Juniper gear: AKIPS MAC/IP/Switch reports Statseeker's MAC/IP/Switch Port Table report PatchManager SwitchBridge (Switch Port/VLAN documentation function) Efficient IP's NetChange-IPL SNMP network monitor for switch port/VLAN/MAC tracking InfoBlox NetMRI (SNMP network monitor) BlueCat Network Discovery/Reconciliation (SNMP network monitor) _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp