[OPSAWG] draft-schoenw-opsawg-vm-mib scaling question

"Aamer Akhter (aakhter)" <aakhter@cisco.com> Thu, 02 August 2012 23:30 UTC

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From: "Aamer Akhter (aakhter)" <aakhter@cisco.com>
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Hi there,

There was a question regarding scaling in the case of hundreds of VMs etc.

In cases if a full dump is not needed, does it make sense to have the ability to create flag setting thresholds that represent an aggregation and portion of a MIB tree? This might provide a more lightweight polling mechanism than a scan of large spans of the MIB.

However, Chris made a really good question regarding if MIBs are really relevant given the

Regards,aa