FW: [psg.com #330] AutoReply: Notification Varbinds

The following is the proposed resolution to entstate-330. The issue 
will be considered closed with no changes made to the document.

The notifications tell when the operational state for the given
entPhysicalIndex has changed. The notification contains the two varbinds
entStateAdmin and entStateAlarm. entPhysicalIndex can be extracted from one
of those varbinds. The missing information is then the usage state, which is
not that interesting from a fault management perspective and the standyby
state which is usually going to be 'providingService'. I think we get the
usefulness of admin status. The alarm status tells you how many outstanding
problems have been reported against this entity. This is interesting from a
fault management perspective.

Sharon  

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 1:01 PM
To: Chisholm, Sharon [CAR:0S00:EXCH]
Subject: [psg.com #330] AutoReply: Notification Varbinds
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Juergen Schoenwaelder [[email protected]]

"I am wondering why both notifications contain the entStateAlarm
   value, especially entStateOperEnabled notification. This surely is
   not wrong, but I am wondering what the rationale for including the
   entStateAlarm is (and for excluding other objects)."