My little SNMP query program that I wrote about in my last post is running. It has a few issues, but I think that they are actually bugs in the OS on the devices that I'm querying (
Motorola Canopy.) Suffice to say, the management interface on Canopy devices can be touchy. I'm going to have to record which devices failed to respond and query them one at a time after the AP has a chance to settle down (my shotgun query approach can't be helping either.)
On the plus side, all this practice is helping to improve my design and coding abilities in a way that
one or two homework assignments per week could not.
On the down/up side, Motorola is supposed to be coming out with a
package that will do what I'm doing and more, which will be nice. I hope that it lives up to their marketing hype.
The down side is that my program will no longer be needed.
The up side is that we can manage more with less right now, instead of having to go spend three months writing a broadband CPE management system.