JMP> Internet Draft for Job Monitoring MIB posted

JMP> Internet Draft for Job Monitoring MIB posted

Tom Hastings hastings at cp10.es.xerox.com
Fri Mar 28 20:58:16 EST 1997


Thanks Don,


I transmitted it in ASCII, instead of BINARY Mode with FTP.


I've reposted it about 3:30 pm PST.  So if people copied it after
that, it should be ok.


BTW, when I noticed what I had done, I retrieved it and it seemed to work ok
though.


Sorry,
Tom


At 14:15 03/28/97 PST, Don Wright wrote:
>Exchange 3.0 complains that this PDF is damaged.
>
>Don
>
>
>To: jmp%pwg.org @ interlock.lexmark.com @ SMTP
>cc: chrisw%iwl.com @ interlock.lexmark.com @ SMTP (bcc: Don Wright)
>From: hastings%cp10.es.xerox.com @ interlock.lexmark.com (Tom Hastings) @ SMTP
>Date: 03/28/97 01:59:21 PM
>Subject: JMP> Internet Draft for Job Monitoring MIB posted
>
>I've posted the Internet Draft that I sent to the IETF on our server:
>
>ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/jmp/internet-drafts/
>
>-rw-r--r-- 1 pwg pwg 314206 Mar 28 21:26 draft-ietf-printmib-job-monitor-00.pdf
>-rw-r--r-- 1 pwg pwg 288707 Mar 28 21:19 draft-ietf-printmib-job-monitor-00.txt
>
>The .pdf is identical to the .txt file, except the .pdf file has line numbers
>that start over on each page.  Both are in fixed pitch font as required 
>by the IETF. (I did not send the .pdf to the IETF, since I was told they
>don't accept PDF).
>
>I submitted a garbled version in time for the deadline last Wednesday, 
>with a request to replace it with the cleaned-up versions that I just 
>posted.  We will have to wait to see whether the IETF will allow that
>substitution.
>
>I will post later today, the pretty versions with and without change bars
>and a revision history.  Also I'll post the issues list, which should
>be what we focus on in our upcoming JMP meeting.  I'll try to include the 
>issues from the mailing list, especially, Harry's idea about making it
>easy for a monitoring application to find a particular job and HP's 
>issue about how each of the objects is used in the three configurations
>we are trying to support.  
>
>The .txt file compiles with one error: the jmAttributeTypeIndex is
>not-accessible, but the Conformance section has the sheetsCompleted attribute
>listed as mandatory in the conformance.  But not-accessible objects aren't in
>a group, and so cannot be referenced in a conformance clause.  So we
>need to change the MAX-ACCESS from not-accessible to read-only, in spite
>of SMIv2 strongly recommending that indexes be not-accessible.
>
>I compiled with SMICng compiler against the 14xx series SMI, not the 19xx.
>It caught the above error.  I also compiled with the Epilogue and MOSY
>compilers and they found no errors.
>
>They all warned about the definition of the temp object to get the
>experimental OID, but I guess we have to live with that until we are assigned
>a real OID for the Job Monitoring MIB, went it becomes an RFC.
>
>Another enhancement is to use the BITS data type available in the 19xx series
>SMI for our bit string that defines jmJobStateReasons.
>
>I had a huge amount of trouble producing the plain text from the MS-WORD
>file.  It took 17 hours of hand re-formatting to straighten out the garbage
>that the generic text printer driver produces for tables and page numbers
>(in footers, and cross-references).
>The generic text printer driver, 3.10, from FRALC, uses overprinting to get
>tables and page numbers.  So it outputs a CR to reposition the cursor at the
>beginning of the line and then produces another text string that "overlays"
>the first.  For some table rows, it can do this overlay 3-4 times.
>
>Perhaps, just a post processor that merges overlays would be all that is
>needed.  Alternatively, use SAVE AS text with formatting and use a tool
>to add headers and footers (but not usually in the most pleasing places).
>
>Tom
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