[rtg] Developing a carrier-class replacement for rtgtargmaker.pl

[Jeremy Doupe]

Steve Scaffidi wrote:
> We have several thousand customers, plus recent mergers will add 
> 10-15K more. Discovering all those objects will probably take far too 
> much time if done serially.

Having done this type of thing before, what benefit are you going to 
receive with polling the CPE/IAD directly?  Why not just poll the other 
(near) end of the connection (presumably T1/T3)?

I still had a couple thousand edge routers to poll, but that drastically 
reduced the number of devices.  And as far as the discovery process, I'm 
sure there's some way you could break down the list and run multiple 
copies of rtgtargmkr.pl or its available variants.  Of course this means 
you'll probably end up running multiple rtgpoll processes, but that's 
not necessarily a bad thing either.  None of this means you have to have 
separate databases though.

Of course, in no way am I discouraging you from your proposed project.  
It may indeed be handy.

-=Jeremy