[Videomgmt] RE: Overall thoughts on a standard Video Management MIB

"Ray, Robert" <RobertRay@pesa.com> Fri, 07 October 2005 14:27 UTC

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-- The Entity MIB is useful for modeling chassis types of architectures.


It appears to be the new and improved Chassis MIB (the chassis MIB
working group closed in the early 90s, I think).  Which is exactly what
we need.  Fans, power supplies, slots, etc.

-- However the Entity MIB does not have Video-industry specific Textual 
-- Convention definitions (nor should it).

Agree with that.  The same mechanism works well for telecommunications
gear, for example.

-- Is there a need for a Video-Management-specific-entity-type MIB?

As Mohit notted, the Entity MIB

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4133.txt?number=4133

can certainly handle our world.  I think a good first step might be to
see how well we can fit a very simple thing into the framework.  Like a
fan.

Would be a really simple thing: perhaps as few as four attributes, say:

Operational Status - a bitmap of things such as:
     on, fixed-speed, rpm-controlled, voltage-controlled
Rpm (0..10000)
Voltage (0..240)
Notification Flag - enables or disables notification generation

Creating a very simple MIB for this and writing the text for how it
integrates into the Entity MIB architecture would be a big step (IMHO),
no?  Adding Industry specific things such as power supplies, video
conversion, audio conversion, audio gain, mixing, etc., would surely
follow and could hopefully be kept small as well.

Bob Ray

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