Hi - >From: ietfdbh <[email protected]> >Sent: Feb 7, 2015 6:24 AM >To: 'Tom Taylor' <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected] >Subject: Re: [OPSAWG] [BEHAVE] NATV2-MIB: Proposed additional read-write >control on per-subscriber statistics ... >What impact would this on-off discontinuity have on the multiple manager >scenario. What happens if one manager is monitoring a subscriber's stats for >a period of time, and another manager goes in a mucks about with the >continuity of collection? > >SNMP's design of counters - read, then read again and consider the delta, >rather than zeroing counters constantly - is done to support the (very >common) multiple manager scenario. The counters are consistently available, >which is useful for historical trending, etc. The dynamic enable/disable of >collection would seem to defeat that important SNMP design choice, and make >interpretation of the discontinuous values over time more difficult and less >useful. > >So I think there needs to be considerate discussion of the operational >impact of such a switch in this MIB.
I think this specific concern could be easily addressed by a read-only object in the table which reports the sysUptime of the most recent change to that row's switch setting or RowStatus. Randy _______________________________________________ OPSAWG mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/opsawg
