Thanks Mike, Fatima
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Mike Ayers <mike_ay...@tva.tvworks.com> wrote: >> From: Fatima Peter [mailto:fatima.pe...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 1:33 PM > >> I have a question on the mask parameter in the vacm view access >> when it is included and excluded. I am not sure whether my earlier >> email went out. Sorry if this is a duplicate. > > This is a tough one to explain, and I don't have time to provide an > example, but I think you're misunderstanding the point of the mask. It > allows you to skip one or more identifiers in an OID specification. The > typical use case is for tables - access can be allowed to some of the > conceptual columns by setting the mask bit to 0 for the index. This does > not, of course, work for string valued indices, which may explain why some > MIBs may be indexed by an arbitrary integer when there is one or more string > values that uniquely identify the conceptual row. > > > HTH, > > Mike > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list Net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users
