Web Based Monitoring and Management: RE: WBMM> Queues

RE: WBMM> Queues

From: Harry Lewis (harryl@us.ibm.com)
Date: Thu Jul 24 2003 - 17:17:16 EDT

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    Yes, compliance levels will be necessary, I believe. I was also hoping we
    could prioritize the work.
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    Harry Lewis
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    07/24/2003 01:10 PM

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    "Wagner,William" <WWagner@NetSilicon.com>
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    <bobt@hp.com>, "McDonald, Ira" <imcdonald@sharplabs.com>, <wbmm@pwg.org>
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    RE: WBMM> Queues

    Perhaps everything needs to be included in the spec (all the GETs, SETs,
    etc of all the objects) but compliance subsets defined for specific
    purposes.

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    "Wagner,William" <WWagner@NetSilicon.com>@pwg.org on 07/24/2003 03:04:12
    PM

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    To: "Harry Lewis" <harryl@us.ibm.com>
    cc: "TAYLOR,BOB (HP-Vancouver,ex1)" <bobt@hp.com>, "McDonald, Ira"
           <imcdonald@sharplabs.com>, <wbmm@pwg.org>
    Subject: RE: WBMM> Queues

    Harry,

    One of the most immediate applications of WBMM, for which no standard
    capability now exists, is in remote monitoring. In general, any set
    operation (and many get operations) must be disallowed for enterprise
    security and confidentiality purposes. If one is producing proxy devices
    to support such a capability (as NetSilicon is), it would be absurd to
    require support of operations that could never be used. Now, it is not
    clear how important full compliance to a PWG spec is, but if
    compliance requires supporting a whole set of unusable operations, it
    will
    become meaningless.

    I also have suggested partitioning this effort, although not along the
    same lines. I think we should encourage more discussion on this,
    particularly on who plans to apply what part of this capability first
    rather than what appears easier to do first. Indeed, since prototypes are
    a necessary part of the standard development, I think getting
    volunteers
    to apply these ideas may be the determining factor in the "subsetting"
    definition and order.

    Bill Wagner

     -----Original Message-----
    From: Harry Lewis [mailto:harryl@us.ibm.com]
    Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 1:39 PM
    To: Wagner,William
    Cc: TAYLOR,BOB (HP-Vancouver,ex1); McDonald, Ira; wbmm@pwg.org
    Subject: RE: WBMM> Queues

    Ouch! disallow SETs?

    I agree (propose) with the concept of subsetting. I am thinking more along
    the lines of a "growth path"... where we start with Extranet as target and
    possibly limit our scope to devices, then move to include Intranet and
    also
    expand to services, then, finally include queues

    But I think SET capability is needed, even at the lowest compliance level.
    If not, how, for example, would a remote manager take a device off-line
    should this be necessary... or post a message to the opPanel?
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    Harry Lewis
    Chairman - IEEE-ISTO Printer Working Group
    http://www.pwg.org
    IBM Printing Systems
    http://www.ibm.com/printers
    303-924-5337
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    "Wagner,William" <WWagner@NetSilicon.com>
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    07/24/2003 11:30 AM

    To
    "TAYLOR,BOB (HP-Vancouver,ex1)" <bobt@hp.com>, "McDonald, Ira"
    <imcdonald@sharplabs.com>, Harry Lewis/Boulder/IBM@IBMUS, <wbmm@pwg.org>

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    Subject
    RE: WBMM> Queues

    Harry had brought up the notion of different classes of compliance in his
    last minutes. I think this is as it must go. For WBMM monitoring
    applications, any set operation let alone queue management must be
    disallowed. But that does not mean that we ought not identify and format
    set operations.

    Bill Wagner

    -----Original Message-----
    From: TAYLOR,BOB (HP-Vancouver,ex1) [mailto:bobt@hp.com]
    Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 12:55 PM
    To: 'McDonald, Ira'; 'Harry Lewis'; wbmm@pwg.org
    Subject: RE: WBMM> Queues

    I do think doing some sub-setting makes sense - in the case of queues, not
    all devices/services managed by WBMM will have queues to manage.

    Once we understand the potential subsets, we can talk about which ones
    need
    to be in WBMM 1.0, and which can follow (or potentially be done in
    parallel.

    bt

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: McDonald, Ira [mailto:imcdonald@sharplabs.com]
    > Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 9:44 AM
    > To: 'Harry Lewis'; wbmm@pwg.org
    > Subject: RE: WBMM> Queues
    >
    >
    > Hi Harry,
    >
    > Apparently we want to focus on WBMM device management first
    > (per most of our WBMM discussions).
    >
    > However, that doesn't do PSI any particular good, which still
    > would require the box labelled "and then a miracle happens"
    > to get a PSI Print Service (or Target Device) installed or
    > reconfigured after installation.
    >
    > Do we care that all PSI implementations will ship without
    > standards-based management for several more years?
    >
    > Cheers,
    > - Ira McDonald
    > High North Inc
    >
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Harry Lewis [mailto:harryl@us.ibm.com]
    > Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 11:38 PM
    > To: wbmm@pwg.org
    > Subject: WBMM> Queues
    >
    >
    >
    > Sorry I missed the call. On the topic of queue management.
    > I've no objection to adding this but wonder if it might
    > warrant some subsetting of WBMM. Are you going to have to be
    > able to manage queues to be WBMM compliant? Don't we want to
    > focus on solving the device management problem first, and
    > then move on to queue management?
    > ----------------------------------------------
    > Harry Lewis
    > Chairman - IEEE-ISTO Printer Working Group
    > http://www.pwg.org
    > IBM Printing Systems
    > http://www.ibm.com/printers
    > 303-924-5337
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    >

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