As far as networking we are a Cisco shop for the majority and layer 2 switches. ASR for wan and nexus for the data center. Are there any documents saying what is the fundamnetal way NPM should be utilized. I understand NPM is polling centric. What reason would you have to basically turn away from all the functionality it provides via hardware sensors and all the other polling and relly more heavily on SNMP traps? Aren't you taking away from the point of the product? Is there any documentation to back this up on proper use of the system? We do own several other modules including NCM and SAM just to name a few. Some don't want to utilizie the UdP and claim it's too taxing and would prefer to turn to traps. Seems like a lot of leg work to go this route to me. What is your input? Any documenation would be very helpful.
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