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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