Re: How does XML help Network Operators

[RJ Atkinson <rja@extremenetworks.com>]

On Tuesday, Oct 8, 2002, at 11:48 America/Montreal, Ted Goddard wrote:
> Alarms could continue to be delivered by SNMP traps, but there are 
> probably
> advantages to reliable delivery of alarms.  It's questionable whether 
> we should
> expect XML encoded data to fit within a single UDP packet.  When a 
> large
> number of nodes fail, it's easier for a management server to handle a 
> flood of
> UDP based alarms, but is this an important use case?
Ted,

	I haven't heard or seen any operator feedback suggesting that SNMP 
INFORMs
(which are the reliable variant of SNMP TRAPs) do not meet their needs. 
 In
fact, I have heard pretty substantial happiness with SNMP TRAPs and 
INFORMs
from ISP operators (which are culturally different from Telco 
operators).

	Absent substantial feedback saying that SNMP INFORMs don't meet some 
specific
(and publicly described) need, this proposal seems to be a solution in 
search
of a problem -- hence not a good near-term thing to spend time on.

Ran


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