CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_



Reported by Steven Waldbusser/CMU

Minutes of the Host Resources MIB BOF (HOSTMIB)

Review of Charter

The Charter was presented and briefly reviewed.  The Charter's
aggressive schedule for completion was also noted.  A concern was voiced
that the Charter was too narrow, but there was general agreement that
due to the desire to move quickly, a short, focused effort needed to be
made.

MIB Archive

An archive of vendor mibs for host management has been created and 10
vendors have placed mibs there.  In addition, a proposal for the Host
MIB was created by Pete Grillo and Steve Waldbusser and was placed in
the archive.

The archived MIBs are available for anonymous FTP from
lancaster.andrew.cmu.edu in the directory pub/hostmib.  Currently the
following MIBs may be found there:



        apple           unix-Krupczak      unix-cmu        unix-sony
        hostmib.txt     unix-Rose-Davison  unix-dec        unix-sun
        pc-att          unix-bsd-2         unix-hp



Any other MIBs for host management should be sent via email to
waldbusser@cmu.edu so that they may be made available in the archive.

Several of the attendees mentioned that they had other MIBs to send to
the archive.  In addition, somebody mentioned that MIT Project Athena
has a MIB that should be included.

Host Resource MIB Proposal

Pete Grillo and Steven Waldbusser made a presentation of the MIB that
they created and were submitting to the Working Group us a starting
point for the Group's efforts.  The MIB was explained table by table and
a demonstration was given that the MIB objects defined were in fact
platform independent, using Unix, PCs and Macintosh systems as examples.

After the presentation, there were many questions asked about the MIB.
Several bugs was found and many helpful suggestions were noted.

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One area that got a lot of attention was the software group which
instruments the installed software and the running software on a host.
An opinion was raised that this installed software table was hard to
implement given the potentially large number of pieces of software
installed on a system.  A couple of implementation strategies were
suggested, and at least one participant expressed plans to implement the
table and report back on the feasibility.  A concern was also raised
that this table might not represent software packages well, but there
wasn't a generally accepted principle of what a software package would
look like or when it would be a general enough mechanism for a standard
MIB.

Future Plans

There was general agreement that the proposed MIB should be used as a
baseline for future work by the Working Group.  The comments received
should be incorporated into another draft which would be submitted as an
Internet Draft.

The Working Group agreed with the aggressive schedule and that the Group
should next meet in September at a date and time to be announced later.

Attendees

David Arneson            arneson@ctron.com
John Ballard             jballard@microsoft.com
Jonathan Biggar          jon@netlabs.com
Steve Bostock            steveb@novell.com
Lida Carrier             lida@apple.com
Tom Coppeto              tom@mit.edu
Cathy Cunningham         cmc@microcom.com
James Davin              davin@thumper.bellcore.com
Michael Davison          davison@cs.utk.edu
Raymond Edgerton         bellmf!edgerton@uwm.edu
David Engel              david@ods.com
Michael Erlinger         mike@lexcel.com
Bill Fardy               fardy@ctron.com
Rob Graham               robert_graham@protools.com
Pete Grillo              pl0143@mail.psi.net
James Halpin             halpin@turkey.sw.stratus.com
Fred Henry               fgh@sodium.att.com
Ronald Jacoby            rj@sgi.com
Mark Kepke               mak@cnd.hp.com
Kenneth Key              key@cs.utk.edu
Cheryl Krupczak          cheryl@cc.gatech.edu
Arun Mahajan             axm@proteon.com
Kim Mayton               mayton@wg.com
Mike Migliano            bellmf!mike@uwm.edu
David Minnich            dwm@fibercom.com
Greg Minshall            minshall@wc.novell.com
Rohit Mital              rm@protools.com
Lynn Monsanto            monsanto@sun.com


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Paul Moran               Paul_Moran@3com.com
Patrick Mullaney         mullaney@ctron.com
Muki Murthy              muki@microcom.com
Rina Nathaniel           rina!rnd!rndi@uunet.uu.net
Tom Nisbet               nisbet@tt.com
Bill Norton              wbn@merit.edu
Steven Onishi            sonishi@wellfleet.com
Bob Page                 bob.page@eng.sun.com
John Payne               jop@wang.com
David Perkins            dperkins@synoptics.com
Ed Reeder                EREEDER@ralvm12.vnet.ibm.com
Bradley Rhoades          bdrhoades@mmc.mmmg.com
Mike Ritter              mwritter@applelink.apple.com
Kary Robertson           kr@concord.com
Dan Romascanu            dan@lannet.com
Marshall Rose            mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us
Simon Rosenthal          simon@bos.locus.com
Jon Saperia              saperia@tcpjon.ogo.dec.com
Koichiro Seto            seto@hitachi-cable.co.jp
Timon Sloane             peernet!timon@uunet.uu.net
Einar Stefferud          stef@nma.com
Thomas Talpey            tmt@osf.org
Rodney Thayer            rodney@world.std.com
Mark Therieau            markt@python.eng.microcom.com
Chris Thomas             chris_thomas@ccm.hf.intel.com
Dean Throop              throop@dg-rtp.dg.com
Panos-Gavriil Tsigaridas tsigaridas@fokus.berlin.gmd.dbp.de
Stephen Tsun             snt@nsd.3com.com
David Waitzman           djw@bbn.com
Steven Waldbusser        waldbusser@andrew.cmu.edu
Kathleen Walsh           walshy@ctron.com
Steven Wong              wong@took.enet.dec.com
Honda Wu                 natadm!honda@uunet.uu.net
Kiho Yum                 kxy@nsd.3com.com
Joseph Zur               zur@fibhaifa.com



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