Non-member submission from [Jon Saperia <saperia@jdscons.com>]

["Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>]

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> From: 	owner-mibs@ops.ietf.org[SMTP:owner-mibs@ops.ietf.org]
> Sent: 	Friday, June 15, 2001 3:40 PM
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> Subject: 	BOUNCE mibs@ops.ietf.org:    Non-member submission from [Jon
> Saperia <saperia@jdscons.com>]   
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> From saperia@jdscons.com Fri Jun 15 06:40:41 2001
> To: snmpconf@snmp.com
> cc: Bert Wijnen <bwijnen@lucent.com>, mibs@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: snmpconf PM MIB Issue #9 
> From: Jon Saperia <saperia@jdscons.com>
> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 09:39:45 -0400
> 
> Hi Juergen. I think you are probably right, this may be more of an 
> infrastructure issue. So I copied the mibs@ops list. Lets move this
> discussion 
> there.
> /jon
> > 
> > >>>>> Jon Saperia writes:
> > 
> > Jon> I like your idea of creating standard write buttons. I believe
> > Jon> this would be very helpful.
> > 
> > Jon> My first reaction though is that you have made this a bit more
> > Jon> than it needs to be. What I mean is that I do not think we really
> > Jon> need a new mib module with a table. Your concern about the
> > Jon> complexity of many scalars is well taken. My concern is that we
> > Jon> need to be able to write at many levels of granularity and we
> > Jon> could approximate with with the table but it would be another
> > Jon> 'registration' task agent implementors would have to deal
> > Jon> with. In the end a trade of decision.
> > 
> > >From a manager's point of view, I would like to know where I can find
> > all the write buttons for the various MIB modules supported by an
> > agent (and its third party agent extensions). (This might as well be
> > handy for policy scripts that try to enforce a certain storage policy.)
> > 
> > Jon> All that said, we probably want to separate that discussion from
> > Jon> the current snmpconf discussion. Would this be an appropriate
> > Jon> topic for EOS.  I know that people on this list are on that
> > Jon> one. We should probably move this good discussion there or
> > Jon> wherever people think appropriate.
> > 
> > I think EOS if for protocol work. This has nothing to do with the
> > protocol - it is a MIB infrastructure issue. I think the best place
> > to discuss this would be <mibs@ops.ietf.org>. Bert, do you agree?
> > 
> > /js
> > 
> > -- 
> > Juergen Schoenwaelder      Technical University Braunschweig
> > <schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>  Dept. Operating Systems & Computer Networks
> > Phone: +49 531 391 3289    Bueltenweg 74/75, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
> > Fax:   +49 531 391 5936    <URL:http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/~schoenw/>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Thanks,
> /jon
> --
> 
> Jon Saperia		     saperia@jdscons.com
> 			     Phone: 617-744-1079
> 			     Fax:   617-249-0874
> 			     http://www.jdscons.com/
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