Hi, Please append the following paragraphs to section 2 "Background", and please add these paragraphs to the comment text in the MIB itself that describe "Textual Conventions". A reference should be added in the section 2 text for the APPNAME SDE with a pointer to the protocol document.
"For interoperability and backwards compatibility reasons, the values and labels are normative, so the mapping from a label configured by operators in syslog.conf or equivalent consistently maps to the same Facility number regardless of implementation, but the label itself is often semantically meaningless, because there are not enough numbers to cover all possible facilities, and the enumeration (label and value) that is used by an actual facility is, and has historically been, implementation-dependent. For example, the foobar application might log messages as having come from local7, even though there is no "local" process on the device, and the operator can configure syslog.conf to have local7.critical messages be relayed, even though there might be multiple facilities using Facility local7. This is typical current practice, and originators, relays and collectors know how to handle this situation. For improved accuracy, the foobar application can also include an APPNAME SDE in the message identifying itself as the "foobar" application." Thanks, David Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Syslog mailing list Syslog@lists.ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/syslog
