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Re: [OPSAWG] VMM-MIB: Proposal: Joe -3 (Was Re: Comments on draft-asai-vmm-mib-04)

"Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com> Thu, 29 August 2013 19:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [OPSAWG] VMM-MIB: Proposal: Joe -3 (Was Re: Comments on draft-asai-vmm-mib-04)
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Hi -

> From: "Joe Marcus Clarke" <jclarke@cisco.com>
> To: "Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>
> Cc: <opsawg@ietf.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 12:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [OPSAWG] VMM-MIB: Proposal: Joe -3 (Was Re: Comments on draft-asai-vmm-mib-04)
...
> Would it not be better to implement something like NETCONF for the
> configuration side of things if I really wanted to offer configuration?
>  then this MIB could really be left for monitoring.

Punting the configuration problem to Netconf doesn't reduce the
modeling (or operational) complexity presented by read-write objects
like these.  If you argue instead that they should be read-only, that's
another matter (though still fraught with complexity, given the ways
Netconf can work) but doing so also, for me at least, raises the "why
bother" question regarding this MIB module.  If these objects would
merely reflect the current configuration data, then they'd add no value,
and there'd be no point in having them at all.

Randy

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