I'm doing some work for a customer that involves SNMP stuff, and we've been talking about SNMPv3 and there was a comment that while $tool and $elements can use SNMPv3 they haven't done it yet. It's made me wonder about how pervasive SNMPv3 is, and the skill level out there of people who understand SNMP in general. So, quick survey that might inspire a choreographed rant from me at the next NZNOG. If you can't answer one or two questions that's OK, SNMP can be a bit weird. - Are you using SNMPv3? - Why/Why not? - Are you using contexts? - Auth, privacy, both? - Does your organisation have much SNMP(1|2c|3) skill - do you know how to interpret MIB files, do queries, do one-off short-term real-time monitoring of devices, and things like that? - Do you have your own enterprise ID (PEN)? Do you write your own MIB files? -- Nathan Ward