5 May
2020
5 May
'20
1:54 a.m.
On May 4, 2020, at 7:24 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt
at softjar.se> wrote:
On 2020-05-05 00:29, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
Correct. However, there is no need to do both 2 and 3, so worrying about SNMP on TOPS-20
(or RSX) isn't necessary. I can get everything I need from a working NICE
implementation. It can even be somewhat buggy; for example I have a workaround that skips
some of the requests when talking to an endnode because of a RSTS bug. It does have to be
minimally sane: the Linux NICE server is so utterly broken that it might as well not exist
at all.
The notion of using SNMP is there to handle nodes that don't do NICE, which as far as
I know only applies to Cisco routers. My thinking is that I wouldn't even try to use
it unless NICE fails.
paul
I guess a number of things might be happening to
build the map, then?
1. Johnny's database gets queried for relevant data
2. A DECnet NICE query is sent, yet these data stores do not have
complete information
3. SNMP query
Yes, I think the idea would be something like that.