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Dial Control Management Information Base using SMIv2

RFC 2128                    Dial Control MIB                  March 1997


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1.  The SNMPv2 Network Management Framework

   The SNMPv2 Network Management Framework presently consists of three
   major components.  They are:

   o    the SMI, described in RFC 1902 [1] - the mechanisms used for
        describing and naming objects for the purpose of management.

   o    the MIB-II, STD 17, RFC 1213 [2] - the core set of managed
        objects for the Internet suite of protocols.

   o    the protocol, STD 15, RFC 1157 [3] and/or RFC 1905 [4], -
        the protocol for accessing managed objects.

   The Framework permits new objects to be defined for the purpose of
   experimentation and evaluation.

1.1.  Object Definitions

   Managed objects are accessed via a virtual information store, termed
   the Management Information Base or MIB.  Objects in the MIB are
   defined using the subset of Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1)
   defined in the SMI.  In particular, each object type is named by an
   OBJECT IDENTIFIER, an administratively assigned name.  The object
   type together with an object instance serves to uniquely identify a
   specific instantiation of the object.  For human convenience, we
   often use a textual string, termed the descriptor, to refer to the
   object type.

2.  Overview

2.1.  Structure of MIB

   Managing demand access circuits requires the following groups of
   information:

   o    General configuration information.

   o    Information to describe peer configuration and peer statistics.
        In this respect, peer configuration means information on how to
        connect to peers on outgoing calls, how to identify peers on
        incoming calls, and other call related configuration
        information.

   o    Information to store active call information.



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