Fairly recently, there was a brief discussion of which
snmpd.conf directives were intended for use by network
admins for configuring the agent, and which were more
intended as "internal" directives, used to maintain the
state of the agent across reboots.
  It was suggested then that we should document these
internal directives as such.


I'd like to propose that we start a move to separate
such internal directives from user-level directives, by
naming them distinctively.  The most obvious approach
would probably be to use a leading underscore.

So a directive such as  "_usmUser" would be clearly
recognisable as an internal directive (with no
further documentation required), as distinct from
"createUser" which would be intended for admin use.


Obviously, we'd still need to recognise any existing
internal directives (for backward compatibility), but
we could start saving state using the new form.

Comments?

Dave


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