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

David Harrington <ietfdbh@comcast.net> Thu, 02 February 2012 14:12 UTC

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From: David Harrington <ietfdbh@comcast.net>
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That's better.
Thanks,
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David Harrington
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On 1/30/12 2:30 PM, "Ersue, Mehmet (NSN - DE/Munich)"
<mehmet.ersue@nsn.com> wrote:

>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
>