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Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base

RFC 2819             Remote Network Monitoring MIB              May 2000


Table of Contents

   1 The SNMP Management Framework ..............................   2
   2 Overview ...................................................   3
   2.1 Remote Network Management Goals ..........................   4
   2.2 Textual Conventions ......................................   5
   2.3 Structure of MIB .........................................   5
   2.3.1 The Ethernet Statistics Group ..........................   6
   2.3.2 The History Control Group ..............................   6
   2.3.3 The Ethernet History Group .............................   6
   2.3.4 The Alarm Group ........................................   7
   2.3.5 The Host Group .........................................   7
   2.3.6 The HostTopN Group .....................................   7
   2.3.7 The Matrix Group .......................................   7
   2.3.8 The Filter Group .......................................   7
   2.3.9 The Packet Capture Group ...............................   8
   2.3.10 The Event Group .......................................   8
   3 Control of Remote Network Monitoring Devices ...............   8
   3.1  Resource  Sharing  Among Multiple Management Stations ...   9
   3.2 Row Addition Among Multiple Management Stations ..........  10
   4 Conventions ................................................  11
   5 Definitions ................................................  12
   6 Security Considerations ....................................  94
   7 Acknowledgments ............................................  95
   8 Author's Address ...........................................  95
   9 References .................................................  95
   10 Intellectual Property .....................................  97
   11 Full Copyright Statement ..................................  98

1.  The SNMP Management Framework

   The SNMP Management Framework presently consists of five major
   components:

   o  An overall architecture, described in RFC 2571 [1].

   o  Mechanisms for describing and naming objects and events for the
      purpose of management. The first version of this Structure of
      Management Information (SMI) is called SMIv1 and described in STD
      16, RFC 1155 [2], STD 16, RFC 1212 [3] and RFC 1215 [4]. The
      second version, called SMIv2, is described in STD 58, RFC 2578
      [5], RFC 2579 [6] and RFC 2580 [7].

   o  Message protocols for transferring management information. The
      first version of the SNMP message protocol is called SNMPv1 and
      described in STD 15, RFC 1157 [8]. A second version of the SNMP
      message protocol, which is not an Internet standards track
      protocol, is called SNMPv2c and described in RFC 1901 [9] and RFC



Waldbusser                  Standards Track