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Introduction to Version 3 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework

RFC 2570                 Introduction to SNMPv3               April 1999


   4 The SNMPv2 Management Framework ..................................7
   5 The SNMPv3 Working Group .........................................8
   6 SNMPv3 Framework Module Specifications ..........................10
   6.1 Data Definition Language ......................................10
   6.2 MIB Modules ...................................................11
   6.3 Protocol Operations and Transport Mappings ....................12
   6.4 SNMPv3 Security and Administration ............................12
   7 Document Summaries ..............................................13
   7.1 Structure of Management Information ...........................13
   7.1.1 Base SMI Specification ......................................13
   7.1.2 Textual Conventions .........................................14
   7.1.3 Conformance Statements ......................................15
   7.2 Protocol Operations ...........................................15
   7.3 Transport Mappings ............................................15
   7.4 Protocol Instrumentation ......................................16
   7.5 Architecture / Security and Administration ....................16
   7.6 Message Processing and Dispatch (MPD) .........................16
   7.7 SNMP Applications .............................................17
   7.8 User-based Security Model (USM) ...............................17
   7.9 View-based Access Control (VACM) ..............................18
   7.10 SNMPv3 Coexistence and Transition ............................18
   8 Security Considerations .........................................19
   9 Editors' Addresses ..............................................19
   10 References .....................................................20
   11 Full Copyright Statement .......................................23

1 Introduction

   This document is an introduction to the third version of the
   Internet-standard Management Framework, termed the SNMP version 3
   Management Framework (SNMPv3) and has multiple purposes.

   First, it describes the relationship between the SNMP version 3
   (SNMPv3) specifications and the specifications of the SNMP version 1
   (SNMPv1) Management Framework, the SNMP version 2 (SNMPv2) Management
   Framework, and the Community-based Administrative Framework for
   SNMPv2.

   Second, it provides a roadmap to the multiple documents which contain
   the relevant specifications.

   Third, this document provides a brief easy-to-read summary of the
   contents of each of the relevant specification documents.

   This document is intentionally tutorial in nature and, as such, may
   occasionally be "guilty" of oversimplification.  In the event of a
   conflict or contradiction between this document and the more detailed
   documents for which this document is a roadmap, the specifications in



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