Re: Manager hints

karl@mel-brooks.empirical.com Tue, 20 October 1992 19:06 UTC

Date: Tue, 20 Oct 92 12:09:19 PDT
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In-Reply-To: Tony Sweeney's message of Tue, 20 Oct 92 14:23:28 BST <9210201323.AA00300@candiru.ingres.com>
Subject: Re: Manager hints
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 >   My apologies if I have misunderstood this. I was objecting to the
 >   inclusion of "descriptive names" as MIB variables. I have no objection to 
 >   semantic descriptions being included in MIB documentation, or indeed as
 >   comments in the ASN.1 source of the MIB itself. "Descriptive names", or
 >   whatever people choose to call them, do not, to my mind, belong in the MIB
 >   as discrete variables to be set and got.

For those who remember, HEMS had a number of attributes for each
variable which were returned over-the-wire (if asked for.)  One of
these was a textual description.  This allowed one to browse and
obtain some description from the mib itself.

			--karl--

Re: Manager hints Tony Sweeney
Re: Manager hints Karl Auerbach, Empirical Tools and Technologies, 408/427-5280
Re: Manager hints Tony Sweeney
Re: Manager hints karl