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Introduction to Community-based SNMPv2

Network Working Group                               SNMPv2 Working Group
Request for Comments: 1901                                       J. Case
Category: Experimental                               SNMP Research, Inc.
                                                           K. McCloghrie
                                                     Cisco Systems, Inc.
                                                                 M. Rose
                                            Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.
                                                           S. Waldbusser
                                          International Network Services
                                                            January 1996


                 Introduction to Community-based SNMPv2

Status of this Memo

   This document specifies an Experimental protocol for the Internet
   community.  This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any
   kind.  Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested.
   Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Table of Contents

   1. Introduction ................................................    1
   2. Components of the SNMPv2 Framework ..........................    2
   2.1 Structure of Management Information ........................    2
   2.2 Textual Conventions ........................................    3
   2.3 Conformance Statements .....................................    3
   2.4 Protocol Operations ........................................    3
   2.5 Transport Mappings .........................................    4
   2.6 Protocol Instrumentation ...................................    4
   3. The Community-based Administrative Framework ................    4
   4. Security Considerations .....................................    5
   5. Editor's Address ............................................    6
   6. Acknowledgements ............................................    6
   7. References ..................................................    7

1.  Introduction

   The purpose of this document is to define the Community-based
   Administrative Framework for the SNMP version 2 framework (SNMPv2).
   The SNMPv2 framework is fully described in [1-6].  This framework is
   derived from the original Internet-standard Network Management
   Framework (SNMPv1), which consists of these three documents:

      STD 16, RFC 1155 [7] which defines the Structure of Management
      Information (SMI), the mechanisms used for describing and naming
      objects for the purpose of management.



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