Hi,
There has been concern that we are unclear about what we are counting
and the benefits of counting it. The following text should clarify what
we are counting. Once we are clear about the objects we can have a
meaningful discussion on the benefits.
Glenn
Syslog Message counters in the SyslogMIB
========================================
The following is the simple syslog operational model for message
receive, send and relay. The relationship among the counters will
relate to this model.
A syslog application does one or more of the folowing:
- receives syslog messages
- transmits syslog messages some of which are relay messages
[ a received syslog message may be forwarded to one or more
relay destinations depending on the message priority value]
+<===Syslog Appn==>+
| |
| +-----------|-> Originated Messages
| | |
| V |
| Originated |
| Messages +--|-> MessagesToRelayDestn1
Received | | |
-------->|- --+----------+--|-> MessagesToRelayDestn2
Messages | | | |
| | +--|-> MessagesToRelayDestn3
| | : |
| | +--|-> MessagesToRelayDestnN
| | | |
| V V |
Incoming | Consumed Relayed| Outgoing
Messages | Messages Msgs | Messages
| |
+------------------+
syslogOperationsMsgsReceived = Received Messages
syslogOperationsMsgsRelayed = MessagesToRelayDestn1 +
:
MessagesToRelayDestnN
syslogOperationsMsgsTransmitted = OriginatedMessages +
MessagesToRelayDestn1 +
:
MessagesToRelayDestnN
Note:
a. there are no counters for
Consumed Messages
Originated Messages
b. the following set of counters will be available in the
next version of the syslogMIB:
syslogRelayMessagesToDestn.1 = MessagesToRelayDestn1
syslogRelayMessagesToDestn.2 = MessagesToRelayDestn2
:
syslogRelayMessagesToDestn.N = MessagesToRelayDestnN
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