Wes Hardaker wrote:
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 22:08:42 -0400, Robert Story (Coders) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
GDP> 1. Overload the context in snmp.conf GDP> ==================================== GDP> Example: GDP> defCommunity public GDP> [myhost1] GDP> defCommunity whatever GDP> [myhost2] GDP> defCommunity whatelse
Robert> This is what my original idea was, and I like it better than Robert> the other two. Not only does it match our exising conf file Robert> special tokens, the idea of a header is fairly common in conf Robert> files.
I disagree. I don't think we should double use [blah] directives. Right now, the [blah] directives are reserved for application types. Making this potentially collide with host names would be confusing and prone to errors when real host names collide with application types.
How about if [blah] was changed to [xxx blah] where xxx could be 'type' or 'host' such as:
# make this file handle snmp.conf tokens: [type snmp] dumpPacket true [host server1] logTimestamp true [host server2] logTimestamp false [host *.example.com] escapeQuotes true [host *] # back to all hosts
# return to our original snmpd.conf tokens: [type snmpd] rocommunity mypublic
For backwards compatability, if there is only one token inside of the [] then it can be assumed to be an application type.
Alex
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