[Nut-upsdev] Re: [Nut-upsuser] Network UPS Tools version 2.0.5 released

[Arnaud Quette]

Hi Niels,

2007/1/18, Niels Baggesen <nba at users.sourceforge.net>:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 09:42:37AM +0100, Arnaud Quette wrote:
> > Niklas Edmundsson has entered the team to also work on snmp-ups.
>
> Fine

I should have added that I've not much heard from him since :-(

> > As I told him, a good improvement would be the sub driver approach as
> > done in newhidups. Having such architecture would allow to easilly
> > autodetect which sub driver (== mib) should be used, and to manage
> > more easily mfr's specifics.
> > And this would in turn greatly improve the user experience.
>
> As the driver already supports several mibs, that should not be too
> difficult. An just deciding on a specific OID to detect which mib it
> implements should be easily done.

exactly.

> The difficult part is, as always, to find owners of the relevant
> equipment.

not that much. We at least have the mib contributors:
$ head drivers/apccmib.h  drivers/ietfmib.h  drivers/mgemib.h
drivers/netvisionmib.h  drivers/pwmib.h

I think the most difficult (long is better) part is to re achitecture
the beast and get it in good shape to support more easily future
evolution.

thanks,
Arnaud
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