Expert
ProfessorI should also add that, while it may not be a problem for many, the NI module corrupts the interface description. We historically used '#' as a comment leader to ensure interfaces could have labels but not be included in alerting. Our code for that with snmp64_If- was fine, but it broke with NI. Why? The data format for instances uses '##' as a separator internally (instead of something structured like JSON). So they just strip '#' from the interface description. I suggested they allow a property to specify a replacement character and the suggestion was rejected -- they are perfectly happy to corrupt data with no recourse.
