RE: SCSI MIB: Open Issues

[Black_David@emc.com]

Attempting to push this draft forward, Michelle listed three issues that she
was looking
for guidance on before publishing a new draft:

> "   scsiLuOutQueueFullStatus   OBJECT-TYPE 
>
> [... snip ...]
>
> COMMENT: There is no QUEUE FULL in SCSI-3; that's a SCSI-2 term.  Use
> "TASK SET FULL".
> 
> MHS>>>>>>>>>> Knowing that we are SCSI-2 compliant and not 
> SCSI-3, how should we call this MIB object?

As has been pointed out, just to keep us all on our toes, the
current versions are SAM-2 and SCSI-3, with SAM-3 being a work
in progress, so this change should be made.

> 6)scsiInstAlias, scsiDeviceAlias, etc -why are these admin strings 
> limited to 79 characters?  IMO, these SYNTAX should just be 
> SnmpAdminString w/no additional size limitation.
> 
> MHS>>>>>>>>>> I would like to hear other opinions.

Unless there's a better reason than "fits conveniently on one line",
I believe Marj is correct that this restriction should be removed.

> 8) scsiDscLunLun - the discovered LUN number is a natural index for this
> table, there is no need for another artificial index.  So this table 
> should look like: ......
> 
> MHS>>>>>>>>>>> LUN is generally an 8-bytes integer that can be 0:
> 1. To have it as an index looks heavy from my point of view.
> 2. It is generally not recommended to have 0 as an index.
> I would like to get other opinions before doing the changes.

I'm going to refer this issue to Keith for his opinion.

Thanks,
--David
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