[AGENT++] Proposal: Explicit save of persistent objects via SNMP

[Frank Fock]

Hi Henning,

I am currently working on the MIB. I will be able to
post my proposal here later this week. My proposal
will be table based and open for other/future persistent
storage formats/types like XML or SQL.

Best regards,
Frank

Henning Eggers wrote:

>Hi Frank!
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>>I like your idea and I have to admit that I regret that it wasn't mine!
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>Thanks for the compliment!
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>>Within the next day(s) I will create a new revision of the
>>AGENTPP_CONFIG_MIB with a proposal for the new functions
>>you have enumerated.
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>I have already done this (in another MIB) and could easily move this to the
>AGENTPP_CONFIG_MIB. Shall I do this and post it here for discussion?
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>>As an extension of your ideas I will check if providing a backup config
>>directory is also possible.
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>Do you mean to leave the persistent path readonly and provide an extra
>read/write object for the backup path? Sounds good. The action object would
>then have to be extended to include saveBackup(4) and restoreBackup(5).
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>Another extension I played with in my mind was to be able to specify the
>MIB-Module or subtree to save to file. There is a list of MibGroup objects
>in the Mib class that could be used to select a module. Entering a base oid
>for a subtree should be quite simple. But both require some work on the
>existing code, I guess.
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>>I will post the MIB here, and after the communities feedback I will
>>implement the instrumentation.
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>I have already done the implementation of the objects for which I didn't
>habe to change the existing code (readonly persistent path, the  TimeStamp
>objects, the saveAll operation) which turned out quite straight forward. I
>can put that into the config_mib code for you to review.
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>On the other hand you seemed quite excited to do the stuff yourself (a true
>coder! ;-) so I am holding back a little... :-)
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>Cheers,
>Henning
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