RFC 1404 Operational Statistics January 1993 There needs to be an agreed-upon model for 1) A minimal set of common network management metrics to satisfy the goals stated above. 2) Tools for collecting these metrics. 3) A common storage format to facilitate the usage of these data by common presentation tools. 4) Common presentation formats. Under this Operational Statistics model, collection tools will collect and store data in a given format to be retrieved later by presentation tools displaying the data in a predefined way. (See figure below.) Stockman