@op, Can you expand a little on the end goal, health, noise mitigation, nms replacement, modem validation?
-----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Blake Hudson Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 4:44 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: SNMP - monitoring large number of devices I'm able to poll a few thousand CMs in a few seconds using perl's Net::SNMP and async calls. 50k seems pretty doable. --Blake Pavel Dimow wrote on 9/29/2015 3:20 PM: > Hi all, > > recently I have been tasked with a NMS project. The idea is to pool > about > 20 OID's from 50k cable modems in less then 5 minutes (yes, I know > it's a one million OID's). Before you say check out some very > professional and expensive solutions I would like to know are there > any alternatives like open source "snmp framework"? To be more > descriptive many of you knows how big is the mess with snmp on cable > modem. You always first perform snmp walk in order to discover > interfaces and then read the values for those interfaces. As cable > modem can bundle more DS channels, one time you can have one and other > time you can have N+1 DS channels = interfaces. All in all I don't > believe that there is something perfect out there when it comes to > tracking huge number of cable modems so I would like to know is there > any "snmp framework" that can be exteded and how did you (or would you) solve > this problem. > > Thank you.