Re: [OPSAWG] VM-MIB: Proposal: Joe-2 (was Re: Comments on draft-asai-vmm-mib-04)

Hi Joe,

Thank you for your comments.

I have a question on the management address.  Do you mean a
management interface that is attached to virtual machine as a
network interface and that cannot be distinguished as a
management interface from the hypervisor w/o VMware tools etc?
Or, do you mean a management interface provided by the hypervisor
for a virtual machine (let's call it a virtual IPMI here)?

If you mean the former, I think it is reasonable to include it in
entLogicalTable of ENTITY-MIB but not in the VMM-MIB .  However,
if you mean the latter, I think it should be included in the VMM-MIB.

There is a patch of the virtual IPMI for qemu though it haven't been
merged the trunk as follows:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-07/msg02516.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-07/msg02525.html

Does anybody know such other implementations of the virtual IPMI?
If there are, we may need to take into account them.

Thank you,
Hirochika

On Aug 20, 2013, at 5:54 AM, Joe Marcus Clarke <jclarke@cisco.com> wrote:

> On 8/19/13 4:52 PM, Michael MacFaden wrote:
>>> If I understand you right this time, and the VM
>>> inserts entLogicalTable entries in the HV ENTITY-MIB, would it not make
>>> sense to add a pointer in the VMM-MIB to indicate their index in the
>>> entLogicalTable?
>> 
>> Yes, exactly. Create a row in entLogicalTable if there is data to provide
>> regarding pointers to agents in GOS and have a way to get at it to/from 
>> the VMM-MIB.
> 
> Okay, so in that case I would change Joe-2 to ask for an object in this
> table to point to such a conceptual row (or 0).
> 
> Joe
> 
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Hirochika Asai <panda@hongo.wide.ad.jp>, The University of Tokyo