SFP DOM SNMP Polling?

Mel Beckman mel at beckman.org
Tue Nov 22 15:00:31 UTC 2016


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 -mel beckman

> On Nov 22, 2016, at 6:57 AM, Mel Beckman <mel at beckman.org> wrote:
> 
> 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:>



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