Re: [Entmib] FW: [psg.com #330] AutoReply: Notification Varbinds

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@iu-bremen.de> Fri, 13 February 2004 16:49 UTC

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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:23:17 +0100
From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@iu-bremen.de>
To: Sharon Chisholm <schishol@nortelnetworks.com>
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Subject: Re: [Entmib] FW: [psg.com #330] AutoReply: Notification Varbinds
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On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 02:57:58PM -0500, Sharon Chisholm wrote:
 
> The alarm status tells you how many outstanding problems have been 
> reported against this entity. This is interesting from a fault 
> management perspective.

Let me ask again: Why is the alarm status important in the
entStateOperEnabled notification? Do you expect that entities
transition in the enabled operational state while alarms are 
pending? Is that spelled out somewhere?

/js

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Juergen Schoenwaelder		    International University Bremen
<http://www.eecs.iu-bremen.de/>	    P.O. Box 750 561, 28725 Bremen, Germany

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