[BBLISA] statistics-based zero config network management: why doesnt this exist?

[Daniel Feenberg]

On Sun, 4 Aug 2013, Edward Ned Harvey (bblisa4) wrote:

> The thing is:  Very rarely is SNMP sufficient.  For most devices, it 
> counts no more than a ping monitor.  If you want reliable statistics of 
> cpu, disk, network, memory usage, you have to install an agent.  I 
> emphasize reliable.  Because although SNMP technically supports all 
> that, I've never seen it usable for that purpose.

Should a switch record dropped packets somewhere? When we have network 
problems pinging across the network to printers and other reliable devices 
shows many dropped packets, but the (Dell) switches don't ever seem to 
show a significant number of errors. Is a dropped packet not an error? 
Could packets be lost some other way?

Daniel Feenberg

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