It became clear to me over time that the pattern at that company was to direct the less great engineering resources to SNMP...
Anyways, Cisco hasn’t done great engineering pretty much since the dotcom bust. They’re now essentially a giant PE firm that grows through acquisitions and then milks them dry. It’s a classic case of the accountants took over.
I was at a startup they acquired ~4 years ago, by now it's just about milked completely dry.
Even though our product is close to industry-leading, they laid off our product manager, then another one, the QA team, and half of the devs. Unsurprisingly the product is falling apart.
It's not a company that attempts to produce value, as with so many others the product is the stock price.
The MBAs are showing some kind of savings on a spreadsheet somewhere though, so I suppose all the sacrifices are worth it.
That was by far the most egregious example I’ve encountered of “we are trying to get unpaid labor from our interview process.”
EDIT: it seems like it was an acquihire of Dybvig and the team working on chez for something under NDA.
Network infrastructure security has a lot of unsolved gotchas and not a lot of industry desire to fix. Most of what everyone interacts with is in an abstracted or virtualized layer on top of the old plumbing.
You can take a look at an implementation of that, which I had built for entertainment: https://github.com/ayourtch/oside/blob/main/examples/snmpwal...
If I remember right, handling SNMPv3 traps required some messy key stuff so the agent still sent SNMPv2 traps, but there was no requirement for keys for GET/SET.