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

[Hirochika Asai <[e-mail]>]

Oops, I'm sorry that there was the answer earier in this thread.  Joe
mentioned the former, i.e., management IP addr of a VM.  So please
ignore my question to Joe.

But let me ask to the list about the virtual IPMI implementation.
> Does anybody know such other implementations of the virtual IPMI?
> If there are, we may need to take into account them.
I couldn't find any other implementations of the virtual IPMI, so my
opinion is that we do not need an object related to the virtual IPMI
or something like it.  If you find any, I'd like you to let me know.

Thank you,
Hirochika


On Aug 30, 2013, at 10:17 AM, Hirochika Asai <[e-mail]> wrote:

> 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 <[e-mail]> 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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