I think it’s high time I removed the SNMP proxy. It’s coded in perl, which is a language I love and have used for years, but not one which fits in to NetHorus in any way that could be considered pretty.
The history is concise – since NetHorus depends on SNMP heavily, it made sense to use Perl’s SNMP library to get things up and running. I coded a proxy using XMLRPC, which Perl and Ruby both speak, with the intention of removing the Perl proxy at some time.
That time is now. The SNMP support in Ruby is there, some quick tests have shown it can import MIB files, so here goes…