RE: Nesting levels in existing mibs

["Durham, David" <david.durham@intel.com>]

<dbh>
-----Original Message-----
From: Harrington, David [mailto:dbh@enterasys.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 9:43 AM

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3) operators have spoken out strongly against applications that have to do a
lot of "conversion" of the data stream to make it understandable, because
when they are debugging, they don't want to add yet another
potentially-buggy layer of interpretation between them and the raw data; and
</dbh>

<DaveD> In fact, I recall the operators making a much stronger statement
that they regularly work (and want to work) with the raw snmp data via
command line get & set, and don't want to be dependent on application driven
data conversion, interpretation, or anything else. Frank, given the operator
preference for low-level visibility, how does adding multiple levels of
indirection between smiv2 tables make their life easier? In this case it
seems that it would be a benefit to have hierarchical oids "on-the-wire" to
make the low level data more readily understandable as well as the data
definitions... 
</DaveD>