Re: How would Restart Domain be used?

"Steven L. Waldbusser" <sw0l+@andrew.cmu.edu> Sat, 26 September 1992 06:56 UTC

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Excerpts from mail: 22-Sep-92 How would Restart Domain be.. Michael L.
Kornegay@math (174)

> I read the description for Restart Domain, but cant visualize an example.
> Can someone provide one?


The restartDomain is used to control the initial configuration of a
managed device rather than the current real-time parameters that we are
used to dealing with from SNMP (those with DEC experience might liken
this to the difference between  SET and DEFINE).

restartDomain is a transport domain in which certain parties exist, but
for which no serialization is defined.  As such, these parties are only
reached through a proxy arrangement (they are referenced as the value of
proxyFor in another party.)  The value of an address in the
restartDomain is a DisplayString that identifies the startup
configuration selected (I could imagine "/etc/rc" or "bootup.cfg" being
used here).

Now the interesting part:  the MIB view of such a party would contain
variables whose values would be used in the appropriate context when the
system reboots.  Thus, changing the value of ipForwarding in a
restartDomain view has no effect on the system until it reboots, at
which time the last value set will be loaded into the system.

Obviously, this feature is critical to performing system management.


Steve

Re: How would Restart Domain be used? Steven L. Waldbusser