From: rick.jones2@hp.com   
      
   Morten Reistad  wrote:   
   > Yawn.   
      
   > Would anyone believe we held conferences about this 20 years ago,   
   > and flew halfway around the world to attend?   
      
   You left-out the toasters.  How can you talk about SNMP and not talk   
   about the SNMP controlled toasters?-)   
      
   > We have this protocol called SNMP, which reads state and counter   
   > varialbles, especially on network lines. We then have systems that   
   > collect this for lines. Like mrtg, nagios, kqview. Some can handle   
   > collection from millions of devices.   
      
   Gee, I thought all the world was supposed to be WBEM now?-) Still as   
   to why not SNMP?  I guess command-line utilities take a long time to   
   kill-off.  Or perhaps it takes a long time to convince someone to run   
   and snmpd.   
      
   rick jones   
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