Subject: Fwd: AgentX offers a perfect solution to a real problem

From: Randy Presuhn <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:39:46 -0700 (PDT)

Hi -

Smitha Gudur requested that I forward this to the AgentX
working group mailing list.  It's nice to know that our
work is proving useful.

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> From [email-masked] Wed Mar 29 17:35:54 PST 2000
> Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
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> From: "Smitha Gudur" <[email-masked]>
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: AgentX offers a perfect solution to a real problem
> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:36:24 PST
> 
> Dear Randy,
> 
> I thought I mention this to the agentx working group and to
> all those who disbelieve in what AgentX is trying to acheive.
> 
> There is currently a practical problem that agentx offers
> a perfect solution.
> 
> I am working with a client who wants agentx solution because
> they are trying to develop subagents that reside on the cards,
> that can be plugged into two different devices of two different companies. 
> (i.e their own device(company 1) and another one on the switch (company 2).
> 
> They don't want to redesign and develop two different SNMP subagents
> to make it compatible to work with two different vendors for SNMP Master 
> Agents.
> 
> 
> Regards
> Smitha
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >From: Randy Presuhn <[email-masked]>
> >To: [email-masked]
> >CC: [email-masked]
> >Subject: fwd: non-subscriber post to agent list
> >Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 19:29:18 -0800 (PST)
> >
> >
> >Hi -
> >
> >a non-subscriber post to the agent list.
> >
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> > > Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 23:15:00 +0530
> > > From: "Shivendra Kumar" <[email-masked]>
> > > Reply-To: [email-masked]
> > > Organization: Wipro Technologies
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> > > CC: [email-masked], Sanjay Gera <[email-masked]>,
> > >         Shivendra Kumar <[email-masked]>,
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> > > Subject: More Error codes on SNMP V1?
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> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > >  We are working on SNMP interfaces for a product named Flash600 ( ADX,
> > > Layer2 switching, ATM)
> > >   for FNC Inc.
> > >   We are using SNMP V1 framework , but, unfortunately SNMP v1 supports
> > > only
> > >    following error codes:
> > >
> > >      noError(0): no error in the requested PDU.
> > >   toobig(1): The get-response message is bigger than that the local
> > > implementation can handle.
> > >   noSuchName(2): one of the requested objects does not match anything in
> > > the relevant MIB view that can be returned.
> > >   badValue(3): The set-request asked the agent to write an inappropriate
> > > value.
> > >   readOnly(4): A set-request tried to write a value that the operator is
> > > not allowed to write.Either the access specified is
> > >   READ-ONLY or the the variable MIB definition does not permit write
> > > access.
> > >   genErr(5): A variable cannot be retrieved for reasons outside the ones
> > > listed above.
> > >
> > >   This provides very little granularity for the User to decide what went
> > > wrong.
> > >
> > >   IS THERE ANY WAY WE CAN ADD MORE ERROR CODES WITHOUT breaking V1
> > > compliance?
> > >   We don't want to move over to SNMPv2 ,but, still want to add more
> > > error codes?
> > >   Can we add more error codes? If so, how?
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > shivendra
> > >
> > >
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