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Overview of the 2002 IAB Network Management Workshop

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RFC 3535            IAB Network Management Workshop             May 2003


Table of Contents

   1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  2
   2. Network Management Technologies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
        2.1 SNMP / SMI / MIBs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
        2.2 COPS-PR / SPPI / PIBs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
        2.3 CIM / MOF / UML / PCIM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
        2.4 CLI / TELNET / SSH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
        2.5 HTTP / HTML  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
        2.6 XML  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
   3. Operator Requirements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
   4. SNMP Framework Discussions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
   5. Consolidated Observations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
   6. Recommendations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
   7. Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
   8. Acknowledgments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
   Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
   Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
   Appendix - Participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
   Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
   Full Copyright Statement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

1. Introduction

   The IETF has started several activities in the operations and
   management area to develop technologies and standards that aim to
   help network operators manage their networks.  The main network
   management technologies currently being developed within the IETF
   are:

   o  The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) [RFC 3410] was
      created in the late 1980s.  The initial version (SNMPv1) is widely
      deployed, while the latest version (SNMPv3), which addresses
      security requirements, is just beginning to gain significant
      deployment.

   o  The Common Information Model (CIM) [CIM], developed by the
      Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), has been extended in
      cooperation with the DMTF to describe high-level policies as rule
      sets (PCIM) [RFC 3060].  Mappings of the CIM policy extensions to
      LDAP schemas have been defined and work continues to define
      specific schema extension for QoS and security policies.

   o  The Common Open Policy Service (COPS) [RFC 2748] protocol has been
      extended to provision configuration information on devices (COPS-
      PR) [RFC 3084].  Work is underway to define data definitions for
      specific services such as Differentiated Services (DiffServ).




Schoenwaelder                Informational
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