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

[Frank Fock]

I will add your comments to the MIB and also the autoSaveOnExit
column. Thanks a lot for your feedback!

Best regards,
Frank

Henning Eggers wrote:

>>If there are no objections posted on the mailing list, I will start
>>development of the MIB's implementation next week. Neverthelles,
>>comments and suggestions are still welcome!
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>This looks fine to me, I like the table-based approach a lot. Just a few
>little things:
>
>The purpose of the permenant entry and the others should be made clearer in
>the description for the table. So it should be extended to read (changes are
>*marked*):
>
>"...  used to load the agent's configuration
>*at boot time*. This entry will have a storage type of
>'permanent' and thus it cannot be deleted.
>*Other entries may be added to provide for
>experimental or backup storage.*"
>
>
>I also think that changing StoragePath would result in the timestamps
>becoming invalid because they refer to the old path. So this behavior should
>be described as follows (added to the descriptions of both timestamps):
>"Will be reset to 0 if agentppCfgStoragePath is altered for this row."
>The StoragePath of the default row cannot be changable, though, because that
>would leave us with the classic hen-egg dilemma...
>
>And one more:
>What about an "AutosaveOnExit" flag to control the current behavior of
>saving the current configuration when the agents exits? Setting it for a row
>would result in this storage being written on exit, leaving multiple copies
>of the configuration. But I am not sure if this is really useful.
>
>Thanks for the work.
>
>Regards,
>Henning
>
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