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Network Services Monitoring MIB

RFC 2788            Network Services Monitoring MIB           March 2000


   This MIB does not attempt to provide facilities for management of the
   host or hosts the network service application runs on, nor does it
   provide facilities for monitoring applications that provide something
   other than a network service.  Host resource and general application
   monitoring is handled by either the Host Resources MIB [1] or the
   application MIB [2].

Table of Contents

   1  The SNMP Network Management Framework .......................  2
   2  Rationale for having a Network Services Monitoring MIB ......  3
      1 General Relationship to Other MIBs ........................  4
      2 Restriction of Scope ......................................  4
      3 Configuration Information .................................  5
   3  Application Objects .........................................  5
   4  Definitions .................................................  5
   5  Changes made since RFC 2248 ................................. 18
   6  Acknowledgements ............................................ 18
   7  References .................................................. 19
   8  Security Considerations ..................................... 20
   9  Author and Chair Addresses .................................. 21
   10 Full Copyright Statement .................................... 22

1.  The SNMP Network Management Framework

   The SNMP Management Framework presently consists of five major
   components:

   o   An overall architecture, described in RFC 2571 [3].

   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 [4], STD 16, RFC 1212 [5] and RFC 1215 [6]. The
       second version, called SMIv2, is described in STD 58, RFC 2578
       [7], STD 58, RFC 2579 [8] and STD 58, RFC 2580 [9].

   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 [10]. A second version of the SNMP
       message protocol, which is not an Internet standards track
       protocol, is called SNMPv2c and described in RFC 1901 [11] and
       RFC 1906 [12].  The third version of the message protocol is
       called SNMPv3 and described in RFC 1906 [12], RFC 2572 [13] and
       RFC 2574 [14].






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