JMP Mail Archive: Re: JMP> Straw vote request: interest in splitting the Job

Re: JMP> Straw vote request: interest in splitting the Job

Harry Lewis (harryl@us.ibm.com)
Mon, 12 May 1997 12:04:21 -0400

NO. I don't support separating the MIBs into accounting and monitoring - I
think one rather simple mib should be able to address both. This is why we
included a set of 4 tables - one for General information about the other tables
in the MIB, one for Job ID, one for Job State (progress, monitoring) and one
for Job Attributes (describing resources used by the job).

Nor do I agree with the following statement (not sure who wrote this - my
mailer did not find any name attached)

>If you buy the categorization of the attributes in attr-tab, there are only
>4 out of 78 attributes that are there only for accounting-only (A):
>jobAccountName(16), printQualityUsed(39), tonerEconomyUsed(41), and
>tonerDensityUsed(43). The rest are there for monitoring jobs only (M) or
>are there for both monitoring and accounting (MA).

I don't "buy" that only 4 of 78 are for accounting only. We obviously have some
major philosophical differences regarding the use of the Job MIB which need to
be address in San Diego.

Harry Lewis - IBM Printing Systems