Re: Whitepaper on XML-based Network Management

[john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net>]

Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 04:22:08PM -0400, Phil Shafer:
> - Expect is the tool of choice for a large number of tasks, but
> the lack of control and variability of the responses mean that scripts
> are too fragile and maintenance costs are too large.

and the language (or rather the underlying language) is exceedingly fragile
and obtuse!

> Most of the customers I've talked with have their own tools group;
> most avoid commercial tools because of version and feature lag. They

and most of these vendors totally miss the target.

we are very excited about XML configuration, flexibility, etc.  i do not
see XML replacing snmp for statistical data collection.