[ixpmanager] Getting SNMP working at install time

[Barry O'Donovan]

Thanks for the follow up Andy.

> And I found the problem. I'd part added the switches by hand and then
> when I ran the SNMP  option (View/edit ports) on the right hand side
> of the Switches tab it said SNMP wasn't available.

Ah, that would explain it alright ;-)

Our wiki documentation actually gas the following. Maybe we should also 
add it to the frontend:

"It is possible to add switches without SNMP polling but this is 
strongly discouraged as SNMP is built heavily into the switch and switch 
port management."

> So I deleted the hand inserted stuff and polled using SNMP and it all
> came good.
>
>
> a) tell us the switch make and model;
>
>
> The switches are actually Cisco 3725s running under GNS3/Dynamips :-)

I doubt that platform was detected? If you want to us to add
platform support for that in the next release, follow the instructions here:

http://git.io/5SD0uw

  - Barry