WIMS> RE: Counter MIB questions

From: McDonald, Ira (imcdonald@sharplabs.com)
Date: Wed Jul 05 2006 - 15:46:56 EDT

  • Next message: Stuart Rowley: "WIMS> RE: Counter MIB questions"

    Hi Stuart,
     
    I copied the WIMS list, so others could see my remarks and chime in.
     
    The significance of icMediaUsedMediaSizeName being DisplayString is
    that it MUST be strict ASCII (it's a _keyword_ that follows the format in
    PWG 5101.1, not a free form name - even a custom size name has a
    format and MUST be strict ASCII).
     
    icMediaUsedMediaInfo is a description that makes '...SizeName' unique for
    instances of different (but same size) media. Because the IETF leaned
    on us hard to make all future MIB descriptive strings be internationalized,
    it's of type SnmpAdminString (UTF-8) and localized.
     
    Now - nothing prevents you from making the "localized" media info in
    Kyocera products be of the form:
     
      media-info = english-media-identifier ":" localized-description
     
    So that your accounting applications use the invariant identifier and
    save the localized-description (if at all) in a separate database field
    that's informational.
     
    Or you could cheat (I don't recommend this) and leave the value of
    icGeneralNaturalLanguage empty and just support all descriptive
    fields in US-English only (the default) - I _really_ don't recommend
    this approach, because it's not very customer-friendly.
     
    Hope this helps,
    - Ira
     

    Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
    Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
    PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839
    phone: +1-906-494-2434
    email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Stuart Rowley [mailto:Stuart.Rowley@ktd-kyocera.com]
    Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 1:47 PM
    To: McDonald, Ira
    Subject: Counters MIB questions

    Hi Ira,

     

    I hope you had an enjoyable 4th of July weekend.

     

    I have a couple questions about the Counters spec and MIB regarding media
    used.

     

    There are 3 objects used to describe the media size and type.

    icMediaUsedMediaSizeName DisplayString,

    icMediaUsedMediaInfo SnmpAdminString,

    icMediaUsedMediaName SnmpAdminString

     

    What is the significance of icMediaUsedMediaSizeName using DisplayString and
    the others using SnmpAdminString?

     

    In the MIB it lists all three as being localized, but it seems only
    icMediaUsedMediaName should be localized. I need icMediaUsedMediaSizeName
    and icMediaUsedMediaInfo to be used by our accounting apps to identify the
    size and type for billing purposes. This would be hard to achieve using
    localized strings. Our apps would need to read standardized names from these
    two objects. Am I missing something?

     

    Thanks,

     

    Stuart

     

    Stuart Rowley

    Network Product Mgr.

    Kyocera Technology Development 

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