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From: raj@hpindwa.HP.COM (Rick Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Network Temperature Protocol
Message-ID: <36540011@hpindwa.HP.COM>
Date: 24 Jul 90 21:00:30 GMT
References: <9007210040.AA28109@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino CA
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one the subject of temperature quotes...

One person has mentioned that the temperature of the system's
environment might be a good piece of *management* information...

Why not make it an extension to the system variables of the MIB and
let SNMP do the querry-response stuff rather than create a new
protocol?

While this discussion may have started-out as an arcane excercise ;-)
it seems as though arcane items like this might be quite useful.
(perhaps not as *fun* as the CMU coke machine ;-). Maybe the folks at
Leibert (sp) would like to put SNMP into their PDU's and air
conditioners and put them on the local LANs?

rick jones

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