Subject: [OPS-AREA] Power management mibs

From: Christopher LILJENSTOLPE <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:51:10 +1100

Greetings,

	Chair hat off, operator hat on.  I like the level of work that has gone on here, and would like to see it combined into one draft.  As I stated virtually this morning, I would like to see the richness of the data presented in the quittek draft, but do realize that many elements may not report much of the data.  However, please remember that there are plenty of locations that are not data centre powered, even in an operator network.  Also, that data becomes more important when you have IT kit (i.e. I may decide to report switchgear out using that mib).

	To that point, I do think we have to have a way of having non-IP capable kit report via the mib(s).  One model is the parent/child, but another could be to take the gateway approach (I've seen some monitoring kit do this before in private mibs).  Basically, treat the non-IP kit as enumerated "ports" on whatever is their IP gateway.  There may be a LARGE number of ports if something like a scada bus is in use, but it is fairly clean.  Just some thoughts.

	Chris

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