Re: another question about alarmMib..

Hi -

> From: "Michael Thatcher" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 2:05 PM
> Subject: [Disman] another question about alarmMib..
>
> the alarmActiveTable is indexed by alarmListName, alarmDataAndTime, 
> alarmActiveIndex
> 
> the alarmActiveVariableTable is indexed by alarmListName, 
> alarmActiveIndex, alarmActiveVariableIndex.
> 
> How come alarmDataAndTime are not an index into the 
> alarmActiveVariableTable, since this table by definition has the varbind 
> objects from the corresponding entry in alarmActiveTable?
> 
> This also seems to imply that alarmActiveIndex is always unique 
> regardless of alarmDataAndTime.  Is this intentional?

Yes.  This should make it clear why alarmDateAndTime is needed
for the alarmActiveTable (it supports the ordering required for the
most common use cases) and not for the alarmActiveVariableTable
(these are meaningful only in the context of the alarm "containing"
these variables, and a time stamp is not needed to provide uniqueness.

Randy