WIMS> CIM> Docs uploaded: PrinterMIB property list, priorities, reasoning. For concall Thurs.

From: Richard_Landau@Dell.com
Date: Tue Jul 25 2006 - 18:27:27 EDT

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    WIMS-CIM participants:

    RE: action item to produce a list of Printer MIB properties and
    priorities

    For the meeting Thursday, I just uploaded two fun files to
    ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/cim/
    (They aren't working documents, so I didn't think they belonged in wd/.)

    1. PrinterMibObjectsToAdd_20060725.xls

    A spreadsheet containing a list of all PrinterMIB v2 properties, and
    some of their abstract containers, and my votes for priorities.
    Question: what properties should be carried forward to a new CIM
    PrintDevice class (whatever it is named)? Priority levels are A = Must
    be visible. B = Nice to have but not essential; gravy. C = Don't
    bother.

    The responses are in three columns, A, B, and C, with an entry being
    either blank or 1 (one). (Or a zero for irrelevant items that are just
    SNMP structure, such as table headers.) I chose this weird
    representation so that I could add up all the columns to see if the
    numbers come out right, that is, did I forget to assign a priority to
    one of them.

    There are areas for several other of the regular participants to add
    their priorities, too, and comments, and we can combine and discuss the
    results.

    2. PrinterMibObjectPriorities_Reasoning_RBL_20060724.rtf

    A brief text (MS Word) document giving hints at the reasoning that I
    used in coming up with the priorities I assigned. What is the target
    set of printers that I aimed for, what is important (to me, at least) to
    sense, monitor, or manage about those printers, etc.

    Please remember, in this exercise, we can always add properties later,
    through a relatively painless CR process, so I am trying to aim low for
    this first pass.

    Happy reading. Thanks.

    rick

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