[racktables-users] Re: define devices from entity mib
- From: Nikolay Shopik <shopik@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Aaron Dummer <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxx>, racktables-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:27:43 +0400
On 22/03/12 01:29, Aaron Dummer wrote:
>> So I'm just wondering why RT require to have manually defined device
>> parameters in code, to make snmp stuff work? Why entity mib (rfc4133)
>> can't be used for that, well at least for devices which properly support
>> it.
>> And this is especially should work perfectly with ENTITY support for
>> modular device (which isn't yet implement AFAIK).
>
> Nikolay,
>
> I wrote a patch which uses ENTITY-MIB to discover modular devices.
> Right now it only supports two switches - a Cisco Catalyst and an HP
> ProCurve. It creates an object to represent the chassis and additional
> child objects to represent each blade.
Aaron,
Sound terrific, thanks!
By support you mean only tested on these devices I assume? Because I see
no reason why other ENTITY-compilant device won't add. Also I believe
same should apply for fixed configuration of devices, which is property
described in MIB. Only difference I see is you won't differentiate
between modular and fixed devices :)
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