Hi Andrew,
First a request - please compile this MIB with any SNMP compilers (from
SDKs, management tools, etc.) you have available. I hate making ASN.1
errors that are avoidable.
Following IETF MIB convention, we always make whole element groups
one conformance level.
So, yes we *could* add the MaxXxxRecords to some new group (but
not the REQUIRED PowerGeneral group).
In review discussion at the October F2F, Pete Zehler and others seemed
to all agree that client-side implementers will ignore these properties.
My experience over 15 years writing private MIBs for 3 printer vendors has
been Pete's right - clients just try to create the row and handle the error
for
table full.
My Samsung implementers don't want MaxXxxRecords, because they
don't plan to use them client-side and they inflate the number of
REQUIRED elements (which looks bad to upper management).
Cheers,
- Ira
Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG
Co-Chair - IEEE-ISTO PWG IPP WG
Co-Chair - TCG Hardcopy WG
IETF Designated Expert - IPP & Printer MIB
Blue Roof Music/High North Inc
http://sites.google.com/site/blueroofmusichttp://sites.google.com/site/highnorthinc
mailto:blueroofmusic at gmail.com
Christmas through April:
579 Park Place Saline, MI 48176
734-944-0094
May to Christmas:
PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839
906-494-2434
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Mitchell, Andrew (Solutions Architect) <
andrew.mitchell2 at hp.com> wrote:
> Ira,
>> I have been reviewing the doc as well as have some others within HP looking
> at it. While I don't have any additional comments yet, I do have a couple
> questions on your comments. While I agree that most clients will never use
> the MacXxxRecords, is that a valid rational not to include them? Would a
> better option be mark the MaxXxxRecords as OPTIONAL parts of the sections.
>> Andrew
>> From: Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic at gmail.com<mailto:blueroofmusic at gmail.com> >>
> Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 17:07:46 +0000
> To: "wims at pwg.org<mailto:wims at pwg.org>" <wims at pwg.org<mailto:wims at pwg.org>>,
> Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic at gmail.com<mailto:blueroofmusic at gmail.com>>
> Subject: [WIMS] High North has reviewed Power Model/MIB and has comments
>> (2) Technical - delete all 10 PowerGeneral.MaxXxxRecords elements
> - section 5.1.1 through 5.1.10, lines 825-892
>> Rationale: Table limit elements are unlikely to be queried/used
> - typical Client will simply attempt to create a row
>>> Power MIB (wd-wimspowermib10-20100926.pdf/mib)
>> (2) Technical - delete all 10 powGeneral.MaxXxxRecords objects
> - section 5 (spec), lines 261-363 and 389-413 (MIB)
>> Rationale: See Power Model comment (2) above
>>
--
This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
believed to be clean.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.pwg.org/pipermail/wims/attachments/20101103/0434760e/attachment-0001.html>