Re: draft-ietf-entmib-sensor-mib-02.txt

Juergen Schoenwaelder <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.entmib
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> Bob Burget writes:

Bob> The technical problems with this MIB are limited to current users
Bob> and implementors of Cisco products. Since much of this MIB seems
Bob> to have been copied from a previously used Cisco proprietary MIB,
Bob> the the re-used names of the objects cause the MIB to be very
Bob> difficult to implement by those who have already implemented the
Bob> previous MIB.

This sounds like a serious limitation of the tools you are using.

Bob> Since the existing MIB eclipses the proposed MIB with additional
Bob> features and capability, the obvious solution is not to implement
Bob> the new IETF MIB at all. This is less than ideal for all
Bob> concerned, so I proposed to enhance the new MIB's names.

I think you should also seriously consider to contact your tools
vendor since the real problem seems to be in your tools not the MIB
definition itself.

/js

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Juergen Schoenwaelder    <http://www.informatik.uni-osnabrueck.de/schoenw/>
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