entstate-651 Notification Description Changes
"Sharon Chisholm" <[email protected]> Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:59:50 -0500
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.entmib |
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| Message-ID | <713043CE8B8E1348AF3C546DBE02C1B40224035E@zcarhxm2.corp.nortel.com> |
hi <Juergen> "o) In the two notifications, you talk about the transition disabled -> enabled or enabled->disabled. Is testing->enabled not also possible? Should these notifications not be generated whenever you transition into the enabled / disabled state, regardless what the previous state was? In both notification definitions, I also fail to understand the last sentence. Here is a concrete proposal for new wordings: "An entStateOperEnabled notification signifies that the SNMP entity, acting in an agent role, has detected that the entStateOper object for one of its entities has transitioned into the 'enabled' state. The entity can be identified by extracting the entPhysicalIndex from one of the variable bindings. The entStateAdmin and entStateAlarm varbinds may be examined to find out additional information about the administrative state at the time of the state transition as well to find out whether any alarms against the entity were pending at that time of the transition." "An entStateOperDisabled notification signifies that the SNMP entity, acting in an agent role, has detected that the entStateOper object for one of its entities has transitioned into the 'disabled' state. The entity can be identified by extracting the entPhysicalIndex from one of the variable bindings. The entStateAdmin and entStateAlarm varbinds may be examined to find out additional information about the administrative state at the time of the state transition as well to find out whether any alarms against the entity were pending at that time of the transition." This is shorter and hopefully clearer as the current text. </Juergen> 1. The suggested changes to the first paragraph look good. 2. For the second paragraphs, I propose we keep them as they are in the current draft. The proposed changes seem more a mater of style than clarity. Some information was lost from the compression that can be inferred, but I still prefer explicitly stating it. Sharon Chisholm Nortel Networks Ottawa, Ontario Canada