Simple Network Management Protocol

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A recent news:comp.lang.tcl message [[26049137.0201080024.1d7d0909@posting.google.com]] claims that built in support for SNMP is something missing from Tcl that is built in for [Perl] and/or [Python].  Is this true?  The posting also lists as missing things like [syslog] support, Windows [window events], [COM] support, and [Expect] for windows.  I know this latter is in the works.
He also says this kinds of support is required for [System administration].
[CL]'s answer:  ugh, no.  That is, unless a miracle has happened, the Python and Perl stories for SNMP are not pretty.
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The "Simple" in SNMP is engineering-speak.  [David Perkins] has justly
estimated that 
"the cost of developing a 'commercial grade EMS' [[element management system]], the cost
is probably $500K to $1.5M for a basic EMS."  His explanation applies
to challenges of [application development] far beyond 
[network management], though:
"Why is it so hard and expensive to develop an EMS? It is because
there are really several products that you need to develop for
different "customers" that have different requirements. The
customers are:
  1) the viewers of demos (at trade shows or one-on-one for
     potential customers). EMS needs to demonstrate key attributes
     of product. Doens't need to scale. Needs to be very
     responsive and easy to move around. Standalone.
  2) so the potential customer wants to try your product in
     his lab. The EMS should ideally have "wizards" that guide
     the intial configuration. Make basic trouble shooting easy.
     Doesn't need to scale. Standalone.
  3) potential customer want to use in small field trial.     
      (different set of attributes)
  4) customer want to roll out. EMS now has now graphical display,
      since it needs to rool up data and provide it to an NMS
      that has the display. Must scale. Must be stable."
















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