SNMP for Tcl?

[Mac A. Cody]

John Chuck Seto wrote:
>
> I am also interested if there has been an SNMP extension developed or
> being developed. If not, I may be tempted to attempt this...
>
> chuck.
>
> Andrew Le wrote:
>
> > Could someone point me in the right direction if there is
> > an SNMP extension for Tcl or Expect?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Andrew
>
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Before reinventing the wheel, you might want to take a look at:
scotty and tkined (http://wwwsnmp.cs.utwente.nl/~schoenw/scotty/)
and Xts (http://www.netedge.com/~ftrogers/xts/). I have not used
any of these packages but, I found them easily from pointers on the
SCO Tcl/Tk Web page.

Good luck,

Mac
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[Your Name]

>>
>> Andrew Le wrote:
>>
>> > Could someone point me in the right direction if there is
>> > an SNMP extension for Tcl or Expect?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Andrew
>>

>>
>>Mac A. Cody wrote

>
>Before reinventing the wheel, you might want to take a look at:
>scotty and tkined (http://wwwsnmp.cs.utwente.nl/~schoenw/scotty/)
>and Xts (http://www.netedge.com/~ftrogers/xts/). I have not used
>any of these packages but, I found them easily from pointers on the
>SCO Tcl/Tk Web page.
>

Besides Scotty, there is a commercial product called TickleMan offered
by SNMP Research Inc. This package is available for most variants of
UNIX and also for NT/WIN95. (Tickleman comes with INCR TCL 2.2 too.)
Tickleman requires no compiling etc and the NT version has great
performance and robustness.

Scotty is great stuff and is a lot more than just TCL/TK with SNMP
while TickleMan is mainly just TCL/TK and [INCR TCL) with SNMP.
Scotty is used a lot by sw engineers and is used in numerous network
management products. When I was working at a large vendor as network
management engineering manager, I saw some of the best stuff coming
from the development groups using TCL and ITCL with variants of Scotty,
which is how I got hooked on TCL.

But, for non-C programmers and window users, I recommend
Tickleman and use it a lot now in my consulting activities.
I even have a few clients who now want to learn from me how to use
Tickleman themselves (instead of using PERL with HP OpenViews SNMP APIs)
for development of customize reports and utilities.

For more information on Tickleman, see SNMP Research's home page
at www.int.snmp.com

Jerry