perfsonar development work

[Joe Metzger <>]

Fausto,
It depends on what you mean by SNMP information.
There is a significant difference between information gathered by  
SNMP and the information
necessary to collect that information from the raw devices, ie  
community strings, management
interface addresses, etc.

So far, I have only seen discussions about sharing the data collected  
by SNMP.  And reasonable
service architectures could allow a "collect this SNMP MIB from  
router X" request authenticated
with perfSONAR based authentication to be carried out using a SNMP  
community string that only the
service actually knows. There is no need to expose the community  
string via the perfSONAR interface,
and several good reasons not to.

--Joe


On Sep 6, 2007, at 8:44 AM, Jason Zurawski wrote:

> Fausto;
>
> > Isnt it unsafe to share SNMP Information (like community)  
> > throughout domains, once normally community for the version 1 of  
> > SNMP is the only authentication for SNMP? may you give this option  
> > on your implementation to user?
>
> Again, its up to the individual service deplorer to decide if they  
> wish to share this information.  At a bare minimum all that is  
> required to mark data as being SNMP compatible is an eventType.   
> Other parameters are not required to be listed.
>
> -jason