Re: [eman] Read-Only or Read-Write EMAN MIBs

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Wed, 12 February 2014 14:50 UTC

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On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 01:53:24PM +0000, Romascanu, Dan (Dan) wrote:
 
> draft-ietf-eman-energy-monitoring-mib-08 has two writable objects. I do not understand well enough eoPowerStateEnterReason, in general I am no fan of objects that pass information by writable strings, so I do not have a clear opinion if it makes sense to make this object read-only or take it out. The second object eoPowerEnableStatusNotification is a switch that activates and de-activates notifications. Such MIB objects are not really configuration objects for the protocol or device, they rather configure the mode of work of the agents. I believe they can be left writable. 

Since the persistency of eoPowerEnableStatusNotification is not spelled
out, it remains unclear whether this object is configuration or not.

/js

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