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Re: [OPSAWG] [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC5676 (1927)



On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 08:36:24PM +0200, RFC Errata System wrote:
> 
> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC5676,
> "Definitions of Managed Objects for Mapping SYSLOG Messages to Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Notifications".
> 
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> You may review the report below and at:
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=5676&eid=1927
> 
> --------------------------------------
> Type: Editorial
> Reported by: Alfred Hoenes <ah at TR-Sys.de>
> 
> Section: 4, 3rd para
> 
> Original Text
> -------------
>    The MIB module is organized into a group of scalars and two tables.
>    The syslogMsgControl group contains two scalars controlling the
> |  maximum size of SYSLOG messages recorded in the tables and also
>    controlling whether SNMP notifications are generated for SYSLOG
>    messages.
> 
> 
> Corrected Text
> --------------
>    The MIB module is organized into a group of scalars and two tables.
>    The syslogMsgControl group contains two scalars controlling the
> |  maximum number of SYSLOG messages recorded in the tables and also
>    controlling whether SNMP notifications are generated for SYSLOG
>    messages.
> 
> 
> Notes
> -----
> Rationale: possible confusion.
> 
> "maximum size of SYSLOG messages recorded" conceptionally would
> relate to the SIZE of syslogMsgMsg OCTET STRING instances or the
> maximum value for syslogMsgSDParams instances, but the DESCRIPTION
> clause for the syslogMsgTableMaxSize OBJECT-TYPE in the MIB module
> in Section 7 clarifies that this object indicates the maximum
> *number* of entries in the syslogMsgTable and does not describe
> some filtering criterion (by size) of the SYSLOG messages recorded.

Yes, this is a typo in the text and the DESCRIPTION clause has it
correct.

/js

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