Re: [OPSAWG] WGLC draft-ietf-opsawg-management-stds

Can you please explain this and provide the reference in the text? 

Thanks and Regards,

Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ersue, Mehmet (NSN - DE/Munich) [mailto:mehmet.ersue@nsn.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 1:10 PM
> To: Romascanu, Dan (Dan); ext David Harrington
> Cc: opsawg@ietf.org
> Subject: RE: [OPSAWG] WGLC draft-ietf-opsawg-management-stds
> 
> Hi Dan,
> 
> STD62 uses the term principal to describe:
> securityName  - the principal on whose behalf access is requested
> 
> Cheers,
> Mehmet
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ext Romascanu, Dan (Dan) [mailto:dromasca@avaya.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 11:50 AM
> > To: Ersue, Mehmet (NSN - DE/Munich); ext David Harrington
> > Cc: opsawg@ietf.org
> > Subject: RE: [OPSAWG] WGLC draft-ietf-opsawg-management-stds
> >
> > Sorry to jump in with a detail terminology question, but what does
> > exactly 'manager principal' mean, where does this term come from? It
> is
> > not used in the current version of the document AFAICT, possibly I
> > missed something in the discussion.
> >
> > Thanks and Regards,
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: opsawg-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:opsawg-bounces@ietf.org] On
> > > Behalf Of Ersue, Mehmet (NSN - DE/Munich)
> > > Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 9:31 PM
> > > To: ext David Harrington
> > > Cc: opsawg@ietf.org
> > > Subject: Re: [OPSAWG] WGLC draft-ietf-opsawg-management-stds
> > >
> > > Hi David,
> > >
> > > > >> NEW:
> > > > >> An agent entity can restrict access to a certain portion of
> its
> > > MIB,
> > > > >> e.g.
> > > > >> restrict some manager principals to view performance-related
> > > statistics,
> > > > >>
> > > > >> allow only a single designated manager principal to view or
> > update
> > > > >> configuration parameters or disallow other manager principals
> to
> > > read
> > > > >> the performance-related statistics.
> > > > >
> > > > >OK
> > > >
> > > > I agree with making the text examples. I think one example
should
> be
> > > that
> > > > some managers might only be allowed read-only access while
others
> > are
> > > > allowed read-write access.
> > > > The new text mixes operations and specific views (perf stats),
so
> > the
> > > RO
> > > > vs RW example is not very clearly shown.
> > >
> > > Would this work for you? If not please provide some NEW text.
> > >
> > > NEW:
> > > An agent entity can restrict access to a certain portion of its
> MIB,
> > > e.g. restrict
> > > some manager principals to view only performance-related
> statistics,
> > or
> > > disallow
> > > other manager principals to read those performance-related
> statistics.
> > > An agent entity can also restrict to monitoring (read-only) as
> opposed
> > > to monitoring
> > > and configuration (read-write) of a certain portion of its MIB,
> e.g.
> > > allowing only a
> > > single designated manager principal to update configuration
> > parameters.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Mehmet
> > >
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