Re: Manager hints

[Tony Sweeney <[e-mail]>]

> 
>  > > Remember all that information provided by the agents is useless unless 
>  > > managment systems and people acting as network managers can make use of 
>  > > that information.  Additional annotation to mibs further documenting
>  > > the use (not just semantics) of mib variables would be a step in the
>  > > right direction.
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > Preferably in French. And German. And Swedish. And Norwegian. And Japanese.
>  > And...
>  > 
>  > But you get the drift. Leave this to the manager. There is nothing
>  > to be gained by putting this "information" in the MIB.
> 
> Where else should it go?
> 
> If it doesn't get put into the MIB document it will be lost.
> 
> A MIB without information about variable interrelationships and use
> is like an unassembled kid's toy without assembly instructions.
> 
> 			--karl--
> 
> 
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.

Tony.