DasanLocationSpecifier
Use this TC to define objects that indicate the physical entity and/or logical interface location of a managed entity on a managed device. In SNMP, a standard mechanism for indicating the physical location of entities is via the ENTITY-MIB. However, that approach is not satisfactory in some cases because: 1. The entity requiring a location-based naming may be associated with an entity which can not be represented as a physical entity in the ENTITY-MIB, 2. NMS applications may desire a more direct name/representation of a physical entity than is available via the ENTITY-MIB, e.g., a physical entity which is named via a hierarchy of levels in the ENTITY-MIB. The value of an object defined using this TC is an ASCII string consisting of zero or more elements separated by commas. Each element is of the form <tag> = <value>. An example of this syntax is 'slot=5,port=3'. The syntax of the string is formally specified using ABNF notation (with one exception, noted below), as follows: location-specifier = elem *(',' elem) ; subject to ; size restriction specified in the SYNTAX ; clause below elem = loctype '=' number number = %x00-FFFFFFFF / %d0-4294967295 loctype = 1*32VCHAR It is recommended that loctype use one of the enumerated labels defined for DasanLocationClass. (NOTE: To conform to ABNF notation as defined in RFC2234, substitute the single-quote symbol with a double-quote symbol in the above rules.) A zero length of DasanLocationSpecifier is object-specific and must be defined as part of the description of any object which uses this syntax.