Subject: Design Points?

From: "David D. Chen ((919)-254-6182 8-444)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 94 08:52:58 EDT

In order to evaluate the effectiveness of a MIB definition, I think
we should establish some parameters of the target environment that the
MIB will be operating in.  Thus, we have some idea about the storage/
performance implication, the interaction between NMS and DLSw, ...

Here are some basic questions:
(1) the maximum number of transport connections (or the partner DLSw's)
    that a DLSw will have.
    - the rate transaction connections get created/terminated
      o during the steady state
      o during the initialization
(2) the number of circuits (established or connected), the rate
(3) the number of CanUReach explorations outstanding, the rate
(4) the number of link stations, the rate
(5) the throughput rate of SNMP (i.e., the number of rows per second
    that NMS can get out of an agent, for SNMPv1, or SNMPv2)

Do you think we should establish some of these while developing
the MIB?  Are there other parameters?

Thanks.  Dave Chen
IBM Corporation