Hi all, yes, i am currently working on a Debian-implementation of HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWInstalled.
Cheers, Alex. ----- Forwarded message from "Alexander W. Janssen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 23:31:12 +0200 > From: "Alexander W. Janssen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: HOST-RESOURCES-MIB and the hrSWInstalledID object > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Steven, > > sorry to bug you with this comment, you are mentionend in the > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB as the responsible contact. > > I hope i am addressing the right person for this subject, if not, it would be > nice if you could forward this email to the right WG, since the "IETF Host > Resources MIB Working Group", which is mentioned in the MIB, does not seem to > exist any more. > > Maybe my whole request/complaint is out of date or even redundant, but i > wanted to give my feedback anyway. > > There is some aspect of the HOST-RESOURCES-MIB really chewing on me. > > I am just extending the NET-SNMP daemon, especially the hrSWInstalled tree of > the HOST-RESOURCES-MIB, for a specific Linux-Distribution which is not > supported yet by this daemon. > > However, i stumbled over the "uselesness" of the hrSWInstalledID-Object. It is > used to give out the version of the installed software-package. > > My problem is that it allways implies that the distributor maintains his > Enterprise-MIB-space and extends it every time a new software-package is > included. > > As you can imagine, this doesn't make sense in most cases - with no UNIX, no > Windows, no Linux, no nothing. Well, maybe Cisco likes to do that, but in > general it is very unpractical since nobody is going to replace his MIBs just > because "Foobar Inc." in Southwest-Kickass, Greenland, released version > 3.1.4.22-rc4-beta of their software-package "Fridgecontrol". > Every vendor seems to set it to SNMPv2-SMI::zeroDotZero - i don't know about > their motivation, but i think they have the same idea like me. > > I wanted to know if there are any plans to *replace* the variable in the > hrSWInstalledID-Object (currently ProductID which points to the > Enterprise-space of a vendor) with something useful, like an IA5 String? I > could easily set this string to the current version of the software-package if > it would be IA5 or something else. > > I know, i am just one in a million SNMP-users, but it would be really nice if > you could bring up this topic if a 2790bis is being considered. I know that > someone just can't change a MIB - there is too much depending on it - but the > dependencies should be *really* in the minority this time. > > Thanks a lot for your time, > sincerely, Alexander Janssen. > > > -- > "One of the things that is interesting about our life here on this planet is > that sometimes the unexpected happens and chickens smashing tiles, frozen > chicken hurtling through the stratosphere, is one of the mysteries of > existence." > -- Premier Bob Carr, Australia ----- End forwarded message -----
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