On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 03:05 -0500, BINNADI, GOUTHAM (AMR:UNKW) wrote:
> >I don't think that the suggested resolution belongs in the MIB
> >or the alarm.
> 
> The email notifications of the alarms contain suggested resolution. The
> email body of one of the alarms is as follows:
> -----
> Message from sipXecs
> Alarm: SPX00012
> Reported on: scssde1.asiapac.nortel.com
> Reported at: 2009-11-17T07:30:34.282227Z
> Severity: CRIT
> Alarm Text: Emergency dial rule 'Emergency (Emergency dialing plan)' was
> invoked by '<sip:[email protected]>' contact
> sip:[email protected]:40279;x-sipX-nonat
> Suggested Resolution: A user has dialed a number which is configured as
> an Emergency number. The user name and contact address of the phone is
> given.
> ------
> So it looks like suggested resolution might be a desired alarm attribute
> in the SNMPv2 trap notifications. Please advise on this.

Email is a more verbose medium than SNMP, and the intended use is quite
different.  The recipient of an SNMP alarm is going to be a network
monitoring application, not a human being (at least not directly), so
the extra verbosity is not needed.  Including them makes the packets
larger, potentially causing UDP fragmentation, which increases the
likelihood that the alarm will not be delivered.  Better to reliably
deliver a short alarm than to sometimes fail to deliver a long one.


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