>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.
Agree..
You forgot to mention that it (SNMP) is also less reliable as it uses
connectionless UDP for transport vice holding open one TCP connection.
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