SNMP Over a Multi-Protocol Internet (mpsnmp)
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Charter
Last Modified: 08/18/1993
Current Status: Concluded Working Group
Chair(s):
Theodore Brunner <tbrunner@omneon.com>
Internet Area Director(s):
Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com>
Erik Nordmark <erik.nordmark@sun.com>
Internet Area Advisor:
Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com>
Mailing Lists:
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Description of Working Group:
Within the SNMP management framework, the philosophy is to place the
burden of management processing on managers, not on agents. As the
Internet evolves to accommodate multiple protocol suites, there may be
SNMP agents in the Internet that do not support the recommended method
of exchanging SNMP messages using UDP/IP. In these instances, the
proper model for managing a multiprotocol internet should be that
agents must only be required to support one method of exchanging SNMP
messages (i.e., encapsulation of SNMP messages in *one* of the
protocol suites of the multi-protocol internet), and the managers
support as many encapsulation methods as needed (potentially, all) to
communicate with all resources it manages.
The SNMP over a Multi-protocol Internet Working Group is chartered to identify
and provide solutions for communication between SNMP agents and
managers in those configurations where the recommended method of
exchanging SNMP messages using UDP/IP cannot be used; i.e., where a
managed resource supports a single protocol suite that protocol is not
UDP/IP but another protocol suite of the multi-protocol internet (for
example, OSI, AppleTalk, or XNS/IPX).
Questions to be considered include: What are the appropriate protocol
suites to consider? What is the appropriate method of encapsulating
SNMP? What are the addressing considerations for SNMP messages What
new MIB Modules are required? What (positive) effect can SNMP-based
management have on resource-sharing among multiple protocols?
Goals and Milestones:
Done Post an Internet-Draft describing operation of SNMP over
OSI.
Done Post an Internet-Draft describing operation of SNMP over
Appletalk.
Done Post an Internet-Draft describing operation of SNMP over
IPX.
Done Submit a document describing the operation of SNMP over IPX
as a Proposed Standard.
Done Submit a document describing the operation of SNMP over
Appletalk as a Proposed Standard.
Done Submit a document describing the operation of SNMP over OSI
as a Proposed Standard.
Internet-Drafts:
No Current Internet-Drafts.
Request For Comments:
RFC Stat Published Title
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RFC1418 PS MAR 93 SNMP over OSI
RFC1420 PS MAR 93 SNMP over IPX
RFC1419 PS MAR 93 SNMP over AppleTalk