| Description | The pmRoleTable is a read-create table that organizes role
strings sorted by element. This table is used to create and
modify role strings and their associations, as well as to allow
a management station to learn about the existence of roles and
their associations.
It is the responsibility of the agent to keep track of any
re-indexing of the underlying SNMP elements and to continue to
associate role strings with the element with which they were
initially configured.
Policy MIB agents that have elements in multiple local SNMP
contexts have to allow some roles to be assigned to elements
in particular contexts. This is particularly true when some
elements have the same names in different contexts and the
context is required to disambiguate them. In those situations,
a value for the pmRoleContextName may be provided. When a
pmRoleContextName value is not provided, the assignment is to
the element in the default context.
Policy MIB agents that discover elements on other systems and
execute policies on their behalf need to have access to role
information for these remote elements. In such situations,
role assignments for other systems can be stored in this table
by providing values for the pmRoleContextEngineID parameters.
For example:
Example:
element role context ctxEngineID #comment
ifindex.1 gold local, default context
ifindex.2 gold local, default context
repeaterid.1 foo rptr1 local, rptr1 context
repeaterid.1 bar rptr2 local, rptr2 context
ifindex.1 gold '' A different system
ifindex.1 gold '' B different system
The agent must store role string associations in non-volatile
storage. |