Re: Manager hints

Tony Sweeney <sweeney@ingres.com> Mon, 19 October 1992 09:11 UTC

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From: Tony Sweeney <sweeney@ingres.com>
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To: mlk%bir.UUCP@mathcs.emory.edu, snmp2@thumper.bellcore.com
Subject: Re: Manager hints

> 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.

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