RFC 1451 (rfc1451) - Page 1 of 36

Manager-to-Manager Management Information Base

Network Working Group                                  J. Case
          Request for Comments: 1451                 SNMP Research, Inc.
                                                           K. McCloghrie
                                                      Hughes LAN Systems
                                                                 M. Rose
                                            Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.
                                                           S. Waldbusser
                                              Carnegie Mellon University
                                                              April 1993


                                Manager-to-Manager
                           Management Information Base


          Status of this Memo

          This RFC specifes an IAB standards track protocol for the
          Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions
          for improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the
          "IAB Official Protocol Standards" for the standardization
          state and status of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo
          is unlimited.


          Table of Contents


          1 Introduction ..........................................    2
          1.1 A Note on Terminology ...............................    2
          2 Overview ..............................................    3
          2.1 A SNMPv2 Entity Acting in a Dual Role ...............    3
          2.2 Alarms, Events, and Notifications ...................    3
          2.3 Access Control ......................................    4
          3 Definitions ...........................................    6
          3.1 The Alarm Group .....................................    7
          3.1.1 Alarm-Related Notifications .......................   20
          3.2 The Event Group .....................................   21
          3.3 Conformance Information .............................   29
          3.3.1 Compliance Statements .............................   29
          3.3.2 Units of Conformance ..............................   29
          4 Acknowledgements ......................................   31
          5 References ............................................   35
          6 Security Considerations ...............................   36
          7 Authors' Addresses ....................................   36









          Case, McCloghrie, Rose & Waldbusser