TL1
No decision making capability commonly found in the agent.
Does not conform as cleanly to the manager/agent paradigm of CMIP and SNMP. Agents are contained within device and are semi-managed by an element manager, which must be managed by a higher level management system with decision making capabilities.
Agent may flood network with alarms, no correlation or fault isolation commonly built into agent.
ASCII based. Flat, relational, functional.
Standard “de jour” - changes from release to release and creates dependence on element managers from vendors.