SFP DOM SNMP Polling?

Tue Nov 22 14:56:37 UTC 2016

Seems bogus to me. I can't imagine why realtime stats would be in flash rather than RAM. In fact, that can't be the case: they have to update the stats many more times per second than SNMP would poll them. 

 -mel beckman

> On Nov 22, 2016, at 6:33 AM, Tim Durack <tdurack at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a vendor that does not support SFP DOM SNMP polling. They state this
> is due to EEPROM read life cycle. Constant reads will damage the SFP.
> 
> We SNMP poll SFP DOM from Cisco equipment without issue.
> 
> Not heard this one before. Trying to see if there is some validity to the
> statement. Thoughts?
> 
> Tim:>