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SNMP is how PDUs let us monitor power consumption over a telco's whole hosting infrastructure (hundreds of sites). Security at protocol level is inexistent, so it runs on a very isolated and very monitored network. Not suitable for infrastructures that can't provide that sort of sophistication to compensate for SNMP's gaps.

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SNMPv3 looks on, angry and alone.

Same with the poor person trying to implement v3 security across multiple vendors devices.

If using netsnmp, it will work without problems, always (in my experience). Anything that doesn't work exactly the same (bugs and all) - good luck. The reason is that everyone seems to use netsnmp when developing, and when it works, the work is done. Doesn't work elsewhere? Yeah, that's too bad.

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