Re: RFC 1905 Section 4.2.5

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>]

>>>>> sidney antommarchi writes:

Sidney> Giving the user feedback for row creation problems is not
Sidney> possible via variables, tables, columns, or traps without
Sidney> correlation problems.  In other words, protocol support is
Sidney> needed.  As such, is it possible to have all new PDUs be
Sidney> extended to include an errTxt (DisplayString)?  This could
Sidney> give the user the ability to augment the explanation given in
Sidney> error-status.

The textual message is only useful for debugging and simplistic
tools. What is really needed for more substantial management
applications are operation specific error codes that signal exceptions
in a machine readable format. In fact, you probably want to have both
- a machine readable operation specific error code and a human
readable error message.

/js