RE: [Syslog] Mib terminology and MIB design

2006-12-15 Thread David Harrington
Hi, [posting as a contributor] Tom mentions that we should not use the term entity here, because it conflicts with the SNMP usage of that term. Since this is a MIB module designed for use in an SNMP environment, that is a really good point. It would hurt us to have conflicts between the terminolo

Re: [Syslog] Mib terminology and MIB design

2006-12-15 Thread tom.petch
This is also tied up with the scalar/table question. If we had a scalar MIB module, then much of my difficulty would vanish. If we keep the table, then it should not be of entities. As you point out, SNMPv3 has given the word 'entity' a specific meaning and I think it wrong to re-use the word to

Re: [Syslog] Syslog-mib-11

2006-12-15 Thread tom.petch
mm Rainer's explanation shows me why I have not encountered this; it is only present in Windows servers and then only, if I read it aright, because Windows has not done a satisfactory implementation yet. The question then is, how much do we adapt to this behaviour of Windows? I find your rem

RE: [Syslog] severity

2006-12-15 Thread Chris Lonvick
Hi, Rainer has it right. I agree that a simple note as Rainer suggests will do it. Thanks, Chris On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Rainer Gerhards wrote: David, I went through my notes. Retaining PRI as is is actually a charter item: --- Reviews have shown that there are very few similarities between