Re: Whitepaper on XML-based Network Management

["R.P. Aditya" <aditya@grot.org>]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 03:00:55PM -0700, David T. Perkins wrote:
> So, does XML really provide an approach that is fundamentally better
> than SNMP? I don't believe that your message or the white paper provides
...
> So, I suggest that a balanced presentation of XML vs SNMP be put
> together that includes some real numbers. This would help with
> an informed decision on the adoption of XML for management.   

I think many (most?) operators would concur that SNMP based config is broken
in many ways, so SNMP isn't what we should compare against. The apt comparison
is between SNMP vs. CLI-like config. We could debate the XML vs. Expect UI,
but XML has proven to be (modulo details) far simpler to script with.

Adi