Re: SNMP Adapter for OpenPegasus

What happened to "embrace and extend"?  ;-)


On 12/2/10 12:28 PM, "Kirk Augustin" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I agree that a generic SNMP client interface could be fairly easily built into
> Pegasus.
> But the http client interface to Pegaus is so much easier and richer then
> SNMP, it is not clear it is a such good idea.
> Things like security, method calls, parameters, etc., would all be lost.
> I fear it would only delay the transition away from SNMP even longer.
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> Kirk & Trish Augustin
> 11821 NW McNamee Rd
> Portland, OR 97231
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> From: Steve Peters <[email protected]>
> To: Kirk Augustin <[email protected]>; [email protected];
> [email protected]
> Sent: Thu, December 2, 2010 11:30:19 AM
> Subject: RE: SNMP Adapter for OpenPegasus
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> Kirk,
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>             The issue is creating management software for a new device. For a
> new device you want a new full featured CIM provider.
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> Now you are left with the requirement to support old SNMP based clients.
> Pegasus helps with the SNMP trap support. The job
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> would be complete with a generic SNMP get/set adapter that mapped CIM
> (provider) properties to SNMP.
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>                         Steve Peters
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> From: Kirk Augustin [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 11:22 AM
> To: [email protected] ; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: SNMP Adapter for OpenPegasus
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> I guess it depends upon which direction one is going and what is available.
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> I think of CIM as the newer, easier, and more flexible way to manage remote
> resources, and SNMP as the older, more limited, but already existing means of
> remote resource management.
> So I would assume the existing SNMP device access would be wrapped inside a
> CIM provider, that was device dependent.
> Then generic CIM clients would then access this provider in standard ways.
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> If you have an SNMP client, then it would seem you would just use the existing
> SNMP device access.
> It would not seem logical to try to use the older SNMP client to access newer
> CIM providers.
> SNMP can't support all that CIM can provide, so I don't see how or why one
> would want SNMP as the client/manager, over CIM device providers.
> It would eliminate too much.
> But I can see that allowing SNMP client/managers CIM access would be best done
> at the Pegasus level, if at all.
> 
> The opposite makes more sense to me, where the CIM client accesses SNMP
> devices through a CIM provider wrapper.
> CIM can easily carry all that SNMP can provide.
> But it would not be a generic solution.
> Each CIM provider wrapper for a SNMP device would be specifically device
> dependent, and not effect Pegasus.
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> Kirk & Trish Augustin
>  11821 NW McNamee Rd
>  Portland , OR  97231
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> From: " [email protected] " < [email protected] >
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Sent: Wed, December 1, 2010 10:25:50 PM
> Subject: RE: SNMP Adapter for OpenPegasus
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> If anybody already have a SNMP Manager and Pegasus supports this kind of
> adapter, with minimal effort, device management can be supported through SNMP.
> Otherwise SNMP manager need to have an adapter which will be a CIM Client. In
> this case, don't you think  first option will give reusability and
> interoperability.
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> Souvik
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> From: Kirk Augustin [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 11:45 AM
> To: Souvik Roy (WT01 - Semi Conductor and Peripheral IPG);
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: SNMP Adapter for OpenPegasus
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> Do you really need any sort of converter, when all you are doing is getting
> and setting properties?
> How is SNMP get and set any different than the way CIM has always gotten and
> set properties?
> Events are different because there is more functionality involved.
> But get and set seem to simple to me.
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> Kirk & Trish Augustin
>  11821 NW McNamee Rd
>  Portland , OR  97231
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> From: " [email protected] " < [email protected] >
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Wed, December 1, 2010 9:52:42 PM
> Subject: SNMP Adapter for OpenPegasus
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> Hi,
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>    SNMP Indication Handler is supported in Pegasus for quite a long time. Does
> Pegasus also support some kind of SNMP adapter which will support SNMP get and
> set operations, which will take SNMP requests and converts it to CIM calls and
> vice-versa?
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> Thanks and regards,
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> Souvik Roy
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