Subject: Re: Questions

From: Randy Presuhn <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 17:27:50 -0700 (PDT)

Hi -

> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:12:31 -0200
> From: Luis F Balbinot <[email-masked]>
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: Questions
> Organization: Pesquisa em Redes de Alta Velocidade (PRAV)
> Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
> List-Id: IETF disman Working Group mailing list <[email-masked]>
...
> The group defined, as part of the tasks, that the M2M MIB
> would be considered. Well, as soon as I understand, this
> MIB based the design of the Event MIB, right? And what
> about the Notification Log MIB, is it based on it too?

"Based on" is a slippery phrase.

In addition to the M2M stuff, the RMON-MIB alarmTable and
eventTable are also part of the prior work that led up to
the design of the event and notification log MIB.  The much
older ISO/ITU work (IS 10164-* and the X.7xx series) also
played a part in the thinking.

> Last one: how does the RMON WG work fit in the DISMAN
> goals? Expression MIB?
...

This was discussed at some length around the time of the
rperfman BOF at the Adelaide IETF meeting.  Check out the
procedings for more background.  In short, when automated
monitoring or control can span instrumentation in multiple
systems, it's disman work.  RMON focuses on the operation of
a single probe (which may observe traffic on many interfaces).

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