[c-nsp] lack of snmp parity with cli

[Mike]

Hello group,

I have a tool I developed in house which polls a cisco router 
terminating PPPoE sessions in order to get a complete picture of each 
active pppoe session. Most of what I want is available via snmp such as 
user name, ip address, the user mac address, and such. However, PPPoE 
Intermediate Agent tags - CircuitID and RemoteID - are apparently not 
available anywhere in snmp. That information apparently only shows up 
using the cli command "show pppoe session all", and so my tool polls 
with snmp first, and then follows up with a text login to the router and 
parses the cli output, finally stitching it all together at the end. Its 
quite hairy.

This seems silly that there would be something important like these tags 
that can only be seen from the cli and not from snmp. I've went thru 
cisco's snmp object navigator quite a bit and I came up empty. I've also 
spent lots of time doing some pretty deep walks of the snmp tree trying 
to just pick out the right info but again it just doesn't seem to be 
implemented. Im sort of resigned to the idea that, yeah, they just don't 
make that available via snmp. Id just like some confirmation from others 
that my situation here isn't actually unusual and parsing the output 
from the cli for certain info is an accepted practice?

Mike-