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Structure and identification of management information for TCP/IP-based internets
Alternative Format: Original Text Document
RFC 1155 SMI May 1990
content of the document is unchanged from RFC 1065.
This memo provides the common definitions for the structure and
identification of management information for TCP/IP-based internets.
In particular, together with its companion memos which describe the
management information base along with the network management
protocol, these documents provide a simple, workable architecture and
system for managing TCP/IP-based internets and in particular, the
Internet.
This memo specifies a Standard Protocol for the Internet community.
Its status is "Recommended". TCP/IP implementations in the Internet
which are network manageable are expected to adopt and implement this
specification.
The Internet Activities Board recommends that all IP and TCP
implementations be network manageable. This implies implementation
of the Internet MIB (RFC-1156) and at least one of the two
recommended management protocols SNMP (RFC-1157) or CMOT (RFC-1095).
It should be noted that, at this time, SNMP is a full Internet
standard and CMOT is a draft standard. See also the Host and Gateway
Requirements RFCs for more specific information on the applicability
of this standard.
Please refer to the latest edition of the "IAB Official Protocol
Standards" RFC for current information on the state and status of
standard Internet protocols.
Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
2. Introduction
This memo describes the common structures and identification scheme
for the definition of management information used in managing
TCP/IP-based internets. Included are descriptions of an object
information model for network management along with a set of generic
types used to describe management information. Formal descriptions
of the structure are given using Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1)
[1].
This memo is largely concerned with organizational concerns and
administrative policy: it neither specifies the objects which are
managed, nor the protocols used to manage those objects. These
concerns are addressed by two companion memos: one describing the
Management Information Base (MIB) [2], and the other describing the
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) [3].
This memo is based in part on the work of the Internet Engineering
Rose & McCloghrie