In Computerworld Singapore, Frank Dzubeck asks -- Time to re-work SNMP?
...Event-based software architectures are the wave of the future for IT policy and operations management. They are the new underpinning for carrier operational support systems and corporate on-demand/utility resource provisioning and autonomic control system software. If these management systems are being re-engineered, why not also re-engineer all network and system management to create a simplified and unified management software and database structure? To this observer, the reason is obvious - an IT legacy called SNMP...
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