Re: OPSAREA strategy [was: Re: OPSAREA - preliminary minutes of the Hiroshima sessionuploaded]

>From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Balazs Lengyel [[email protected]]
>Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 1:44 AM
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>An interesting point would be addressing/naming. As I see it
>configuration is heading for Netconf while fault management is using
>SNMP. 

I agree with this observation.

>These have very different naming systems.
>I have the basic use case:  I get an alarm/trap about some resource in
>my node. I want to check the configuration/status of the resource,
>however I can't just copy the SNMP OID into a get/subtree-filter of a
>Netconf message. So what is the recommended way?

Indeed.

We have seen internet standard data model be extended to report names from
other data models -- case in point IF-MIB rfc 2863 section 3.1.5 on ifName.

In other cases what I have done for vendors is to update their enterprise mib modules
DESCRIPTIONS, to show how to poll for state using whatever the vendor would
prefer operators to use. 

Mike MacFaden
VMware Engineering, Palo Alto, CA