Re: Persistent Configuration

[Steve Moulton <moulton@snmp.com>]

On Friday, February 17 2006, "Eduardo Cardona" <e.cardona@CableLabs.com> wrote:

> Hi, 
> I am wondering if there is a management model to command the SNMP agent
> to store in non-volatile memory MIB variables explicitly defined as
> persistent or entries with StorageType ('nonVolatile' or 'permanent').
> Or it's being decided to leave it as part of the enterprise MIB
> definitions.
> 
> This problem is described in section 3.7. of RFC 3512

I am aware of at least two vendor-dependent solutions to this 
question.  In those cases, many (f not all) nonVolatile objects are written
only when a certain object (in enterprise space) is set.  
I am personally a believer in rewriting objects as they are set,
but understand that there can be data coherency problems and
nvram durability problems associated with doing this.

I am not aware of a standard model for doing this.

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