Printer MIB Implementation Experience

Printer MIB Implementation Experience

Tom Hastings hastings at cp10.es.xerox.com
Wed Nov 6 11:22:38 EST 1996


Lloyd,


list at least the required groups from the Host Resources MIB and MIB II?


Lets discuss at the meeting tommorrow.


Tom


At 10:49 11/04/96 PST, Lloyd Young wrote:
>We must submit an implementation experience matrix to IETF for the
>Printer MIB. Deidre's request was that we list tables, scalar objects,
>and traps as column headings and vendors as row headings. I have
>come up with something that I wanted to toss out for discussion.
>I decided to list groups instead of tables because for the groups
>that are mandatory, we were supposed to implement everything
>in that group. I also took a first pass at filling in the matrix
>for the printer vendors. I used the information for the optional
>groups that had previously been sent in (for some reason I cannot
>find my copy of the reports from Kyocera and Xerox).
>
>There are two areas for discussion:
>1. Format of the matrix. Should we list all tables or is groups
>acceptable?
>2. Implementators need to verify and/or fill in the correct
>information for their implementation.
>
>                      HP   IBM   Kyocera   Lexmark   Tektronix   Xerox
>
>General Printer Grp      x    x     x         x         x           x
>Responsible Party Grp    x    x     ?         x         x           ?
>Input Group              x    x     x         x         x           x
>Extended Input Group     x    x     ?         x         x           ?
>Input Media Group                   ?         x         x           ?
>Output Group             x    x     x         x         x           x
>Extended Output Group    x    x     ?         x         x           ?
>Output Dimensions Grp               ?         x         x           ?
>Output Features Group    x          ?         x         x           ?
>Marker Group             x    x     x         x         x           x
>Marker Supplies Group    x          ?         x         x           ?
>Marker Colorant Group               ?         x         x           ?
>Media Path Group         x    x     x         x         x           x
>Channel Group            x    x     x         x         x           x
>Interpreter Group        x    x     x         x         x           x
>Console Group            x    x     x         x         x           x
>Alerts Group             x    x     x         x         x           x
>Alert Time Group              x     ?         x         x           ?
>Traps Generated          ?    ?     ?         x         ?           ?
>
>For vendors which implemented different groups on different products, I
>decided that a logical OR of the different implementations was
>appropriate. Discussion?
>   
>
>Lloyd Young                       Phone: (606) 232-5150
>Lexmark International Inc.        Fax: (606) 232-6740
>740 New Circle Road NW            internet: lpyoung at lexmark.com
>Lexington, KY 40511
>
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