Re: WIMS> Posted Imaging System State and Counter MIB v2 (28 April 2007)

From: Ron.Bergman@ricoh-usa.com
Date: Wed May 02 2007 - 17:43:03 EDT

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    Hi Ira,

    Thank you for the quick update on your proposal. Here are some comments.

    1. In my proposal for Service State, I included an enum for "offline".
    Although this can be obtained from "stopped" and by reading the Alert
    table, I believe the offline condition has sufficient uniqueness to be
    included as a unique entry. This would be especially useful in sites where
    the user is only able to access this level of information (i.e. not the
    alert table) and must call a service person for even simple issues such as
    adding paper or clearing jams. But if someone just pressed the offline key
    he could walk over to the printer or call a secretary to put the printer
    back on line.

    2. In IcSubunitTypeTC you have added "vendorSubunit (60)". This enum has
    been defined for Fax in the Alerts Extension document.

    3. I suggest a short note in the beginning of the Conformance Statements
    indicating there are two entries and why. This is a long section and it
    will not be obvious that there is are two until they are read completely.

    Regards,
    Ron

                                                                               
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    Hi, Saturday (28 April 2007)

    [Based on review at the PWG Piscataway face-to-face meeting Thursday]
    [For review on the WIMS mailing list and at the next WIMS telecon]

    I've just posted my third working draft of Imaging System State and
    Counter MIB v2 at:

      ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/wd/wd-wimscountmib20-20070428.mib
        - ASN.1 only - compiles without warnings in Epilogue and SMICng

      ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/wd/wd-wimscountmib20-20070428.pdf
        - PDF - color-highlighted ASN.1 of MIB

    Summary:
    --------
    (1) Imaging System State and Counter MIB v2 supports monitoring of the
        _state_ and/or counters of all imaging services and imaging subunits
        independent of any other MIB (but coherent with Printer MIB,
        Finisher MIB, and Host Resources MIB).

    (2) Imaging System State and Counter MIB v2 resolves the main problem of
        MFP Alerts (ambiguity about which services are affected when a given
        alert occurs).

    (3) Imaging System State and Counter MIB v2 adds objects to three
        existing tables and adds one new table, so it must pass through the
        full PWG Process: Initial, Interim, Prototype, Stable, PWG Last
        Call, and PWG Formal Approval vote.

    (4) Imaging System State and Counter MIB v2 is 100% backward compatible
        with Counter MIB v1 (all new objects have new compliance groups).

    The only changes from the previous version were: changing the MIB
    descriptive name (but not the module label or OID); adding new
    'icServicePrtAlertIndex' object; and adding new 'icMIBStateCompliance'
    macro - thanks to Ron Bergman and Pete Zehler!

    Comments?

    Cheers,
    - Ira

    Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
    Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG
    Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
    PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839
    phone: +1-906-494-2434
    email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com
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    Change Log (from REVISION clause in body of MIB)

    28 April 2007 - Imaging System State and Counter MIB v2 - Working Draft
    * Revised DESCRIPTION clause of imagingCounterMIB MODULE-IDENTITY
        macro to explicitly support state monitoring.
    * Added one new columnar object to existing conceptual table:
        icServicePrtAlertIndex appended to
            icServiceTable, per Printer MIB v2 (RFC 3805).
    * Added new MODULE-COMPLIANCE macro icMIBStateCompliance, for use
        when Imaging System State and Counter MIB V2 is implemented
        for service state and (optional) subunit state monitoring.

    23 April 2007 - Counter MIB v2 - Working Draft

    * Clarified conformance requirements for icKeyServiceIndex and
        icServiceIndex with respect to Host Resources MIB.

    31 March 2007 - Counter MIB v2 - Working Draft

    * Added two new textual conventions:
        IcServiceStateTC, per WIMS Protocol (PWG 5106.2), based on
            IPP/1.1 (RFC 2911) and Host Resources MIB (RFC 2790);
        IcSubunitStatusTC, per WIMS Protocol (PWG 5106.2), based on
            PrtSubUnitStatusTC in Printer MIB (RFC 3805).
    * Revised one existing textual convention:
        IcSubunitTypeTC, to add all finishing device types, based on
            FinDeviceTypeTC in Finisher MIB (RFC 3806).
    * Added five new columnar objects to existing conceptual tables:
        icServiceState and icServiceStateMessage appended to
            icServiceTable, per WIMS Protocol (PWG 5106.2);
        icSubunitStatus and icSubunitStatusMessage appended to
            icSubunitTable, per WIMS Protocol (PWG 5106.2);
        icMediaUsedMediaAccountingKey appended to
            icMediaUsedTable, per PWG Abtract Counters (PWG 5106.1).
    * Added one new conceptual table:
        icSubunitMapTable, to map services to their subunits.
    * Added four new OBJECT-GROUPS:
        icSubunitMapV2Group (Optional);
        icServiceV2Group (Optional);
        icSubunitV2Group (Optional);
        icMediaUsedV2Group (Optional).
    * In MODULE-COMPLIANCE icMIBCompliance, new OBJECT-GROUPs are all
        all in GROUP (not MANDATORY-GROUP) clauses. The one new
        table and the six new objects are optional, i.e., this
        version is backward compatible with Counter MIB v1.

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