RFC 1559 (rfc1559) - Page 3 of 69
DECnet Phase IV MIB Extensions
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RFC 1559 DECnet Phase IV MIB December 1993
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.
3. Selected Objects
The objects included in this memo have been created from the DIGITAL
Network Architecture Network Management Functional Specification
Version 4.0.0, dated July 1983. An attempt has been made to provide a
reasonable ordering of these variables into groups. These groups are:
System Group
Network Management Group
Session Group
End Group
Routing Group
Circuit Group
DDCMP Group
DDCMP Multipoint Control Group
Ethernet Group
Counters Group
Adjacency Group
Line Group
Non Broadcast Line Group
Area Group
An effort has also been made to preserve the original syntax of each
object wherever possible, for example, a DECnet Phase IV object is
Executor State. This was originally coded as a NICE (Network
Information and Control Exchange) data type which is a coded single
field object of 1 byte in length. When converted for inclusion into
the Internet MIB using the Internet SMI, it became an enumerated
integer.
All objects in this memo are described using the standard Internet
SMI and BER of STD 16, RFC 1155. A complete description of an object
will include the name, syntax and encoding. Just as with objects
supported in the MIB (STD 17, RFC 1213), an object name is identified
with an object identifier which has been administratively assigned.
This identifies an Object Type. When an object type is combined with
a specific instance, the particular object is uniquely identified.
The use of Object Descriptors in this memo is consistent with that of
STD 17, RFC 1213 - they are text strings meant to be read by humans.
The descriptors have been taken from the original DIGITAL Network
Architecture Network Management Functional Specification Version
4.0.0 Dated July 1983 which defined DECnet Phase IV objects. These
DECnet Phase IV MIB Working Group