Subject: Re: event mib operating on ranges

From: Randy Presuhn <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:30:16 -0700 (PDT)

Hi -

> Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:17:57 -0700
> From: Ramanathan Kavasseri <[email-masked]>
> To: Randy Presuhn <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: event mib operating on ranges
> References: <[email-masked]>
...
> The problem I'd mentioned was:
> 1. The Event MIB does great at wildcarding one ports,
> or ALL ports. It's hard to apply a template to a subset
> of all the existing ports on a device. We had to come up with
> a separate table in a proprietary MIB for this. This MIB
> had a table of templates, and another template-to-port mapping 
> table.
> 
> Each template could specify what object to watch for/threshold.
...

Based on this experience, would you recommend changes to the
Event MIB specification, currently at Proposed?

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