Scott, See my remarks on the security issues in private email.
ITschak On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Scott Fagen <[email protected]>wrote: > Itschak said: > <snip> > So what you are saying is that BCPII do use SNMP as an internal protocol, > but don't use the IP STACK to communicate with the SE & HMC? It is my > understanding that BCPII uses SNMP V1 to internally communicate with the > support Element/HMC. Please clarify the Protocol itself, not the wires used > for transport. > </snip> > > I didn't say anything about the shape of the flow over the pipe. I also > didn't make any comment about the shape of the pipe. For all intents and > purposes, the BCPii API set is the protocol that you and I see; whatever > smoke and mirrors that are used behind the APIs are of no consequence. > > It's not clear why the protocol itself matters to you, as your (and my) > programs cannot get to the "pipe" directly. If you look at the referenced, > it's also good enough for the rest of the operating system. Also, > publishing the wire protocol might "box-in" IBM on future generations of > hardware. > > Scott Fagen > Chief Architect - System z > CA Technologies > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
