Re: [netmod] AD review of draft-ietf-netmod-system-mgmt

Martin Bjorklund <mbj@tail-f.com> Fri, 13 December 2013 11:15 UTC

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Ladislav Lhotka <lhotka@nic.cz> wrote:
> Andy Bierman <andy@yumaworks.com> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Ladislav Lhotka <lhotka@nic.cz>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> just an idea: would it help if the server simply records the mapped
> >> DisplayString version in state data?
> >>
> >>
> > No.  I am OK with the proposal to force the server to constrain the
> > objects
> 
> Why not, actually? I mean something like this:
> 
> { "system-state" : {
>     ...
>     "location" : "Schrödingerstraße",
>     "mib:sysLocation" : "Schroedingerstrasse",
>     ...
> }
> 
> This is similar to what Randy proposed with "legacy-location", but it
> is in *state*, so it doesn't introduce a second configuration object.

But why report the MIB object at all in this case?

If we decide these objects are really separate, I don't see the need
to report the MIB object.  A manager that wants to see the SNMP object
in addition to the NETCONF object (for some reason) can use SNMP.


/martin