Tcl and Scotty package

Tcl features a powerful engine for managing SNMP, MIB, and many additional features called Scotty. It is an extension for Tcl that provides mechanisms for querying information over SNMP, receiving SNMP traps, and even allows us to create our own SNMP agents so that our application can be queried from other SNMP-aware applications.

It also features an extensive GUI application called TkInEd (Tcl/Tk-based Interactive Network Editor), which can be used to interactively discover, monitor, and graph data using SNMP.

While Scotty is the name of the project, the underlying Tcl package that offers SNMP and other network-related functionality is called Tcl Network Management (Tnm). When talking about project in general, we'll mention ...

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