Re: How do you handle ghost resources?

[Anil Rijsinghani <[e-mail]>]

    Ron,

> 2.  Let SNMP return "no such name" for any variable not physically
>     present.  This would destroy the usefulness of the (powerful) 
>     get-next operator.

    I think this is the preferred way of reporting ghosts.  And no,
    you would not have destroyed the usefulness of the get-next
    operator.  NMS's are supposed to deal with missing variables
    (this could happen routinely in the case that a community
    name was not allowed access to certain variables).  In fact
    this is one of the advantages of GET-NEXT; it returns the
    next available object.  noSuch is returned only when a GET
    is performed on an unavailable object.

    As long as you implement all objects when the MAC *is* present,
    then you would be compliant to the MIB (in my opinion).

    Anil