Re: (PM) PMVision Suite of Tools

Chris Parker (cparker@starnetusa.net)
Mon, 08 Jun 1998 11:42:17 -0500

At 12:14 PM 6/8/98 -0400, Stephen Zedalis wrote:
>On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Chris Parker wrote:
>
>>Yes it is slower. But how much raw speed do you need out of 'pminstall'?
>
>Its not 'pminstall' that I am talking about. It's apps like pmconsole,
>pmwho, pmcommand that are used in other people's homebrew scripts
>repeatedly. As I've said before... If Lucent doesn't want to write C
>interfaces, ok... But document the interfaces so that we can

I use SNMP for things like that. Proprietary interfaces change or get
deprecated, as it the case here, you use them at your own risk. For those
that have multi-vendor environments, SNMP works for all of them, the same
way. That's what SNMP is there for. Yes it's slower than a native
proprietary interface, but that's the same argument as C vs. Java. Wider
compatability comes with a speed tradeoff.

-Chris

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