On 5/26/14, 2:31 AM, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
> Asai,
> 
> the IESG statement is here:
> 
>   http://www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/writable-mib-module.html
> 
> My reading is that it specifically talks about configuration. While
> the discussion started with "lets ban all write access", it may be
> important to note that the final statement does not say this. Hence,
> I am not sure we have to remove the MAX-ACCESS read-write.

some of the vm options do cause me existential peril. The remaining
one's however do not. so I think Juergen's assessment  is a correct one.
The statement seems to be serving it's purpose!

thanks

> /js
> 
> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 04:24:38PM +0900, Hirochika Asai wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> We'd like to discuss the read-write access in the proposed MIB about virtual
>> machine monitoring: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-opsawg-vmm-mib .
>>
>> It has 10 read-write objects. All of them do not affect persistent 
>> configuration
>> of hypervisor or virtual machines. However, according to a comment during
>> the previous IETF meeting, the IESG statement also suggests not to include
>> read-write objects even if they do not persist after the restart of the 
>> agent or
>> system.
>>
>> In this sense, I think the following 8 objects will be read-only.
>> 1. vmAdminState
>> 2. vmCurCpuNumber
>> 3. vmMinCpuNumber
>> 4. vmMaxCpuNumber
>> 5. vmCurMem
>> 6. vmMinMem
>> 7. vmMaxMem
>> 8. vmCpuAffinity
>>
>> The following two objects require discussion because these objects are not
>> related to hypervisor or virtual machines, but notifications of SNMP.
>> The reason why I think they can be kept read-write is they are control 
>> objects
>> of an SNMP agent and it does not affect the configuration of monitoring 
>> targets.
>> However, from the viewpoint of security, I can agree that they should also be
>> read-only and operators configure them not through SNMP (or something) but
>> through another configuration scheme such as editing a configuration file.
>> 9. vmPerVMNotificationsEnabled
>> 10. vmBulkNotificationsEnabled
>>
>> I hope you give us your comments on the access of 10 objects.
>>
>> Thank you.
>> Hirochika
>>
>> -- 
>> Hirochika Asai <[email protected]>, The University of Tokyo
>>
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