Subject: Re: Pairing instances in RMON example

From: Randy Presuhn <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:53:26 -0700 (PDT)

Hi -

> From: "Stefan Wallin" <[email-masked]>
> To: <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Pairing instances in RMON example
> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:43:29 +0200
> Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
> In-Reply-To: <[email-masked]>
...
> 2) However the more general question is:
> Lets say I define two alarms in the RMON alarmTable:
> alarmVariable X, risingThreshold 10, fallingthreshold 8
> alarmVariable Y, risingThreshold 20, fallingthreshold 16
> 
> In this case it is extremely important that fallingAlarm Threshold on Y
> does not clear any active alarm on X.
> How do we describe that? Miss something in the alarmModelTable to point to
> resource var-bind in case the generic notifications are not used.
> (Resembles Perkins ifIndex example). What is the conclusion on the
> previous issue here?
...

I agree that there's a problem.  For this to work as intended,
the resource needs to be identified.  At the moment, this looks
like magic.  Perhaps some of the tricks from the expression
MIB or the snmpconf work might be appropriate.

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