perfsonar development work

[Nicolas Simar <>]

Jason Zurawski wrote:
> Fausto;
>
> > I have the following doubt: if you have a schema for SNMP, so a ma-rrd 
> > can only implement this schema instead of implementing Utilization, 
> > Errors and Discards?
> >
> > Or any ma needs to implement all this schemas?
>
>
> The schemas can be used together or separately.  The RRD MA currently 
> implements characteristic schemas (util/errors/discs) only while the 
> SNMP MA implements the tool and characteristic namespaces together.  
> There is no requirement for an MA to offer all of these, the choice is 
> up to the service provider.

For a schema point of view I fully agree.
For a consistency point of view amongst provider that wishes to work 
together, there must be a an agreement on a common namespace amongst 
everybody otherwise, the whole exercise of perfSONAR is useless.
Note that this doesn't prevent to  implement additional namespace.

Cheers,
--
Nicolas
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