RFC 2248 Network Services MIB January 1998 This MIB does not attempt to provide facilities for management of the host or hosts the network service application runs on, nor does it provide facilities for monitoring applications that provide something other than a network service. Host resource and general application monitoring is handled by the Host Resources MIB at present; development of an additional application MIB is currently underway in the IETF. 2. Table of Contents 1 Introduction ............................................... 1 2 Table of Contents .......................................... 2 3 The SNMPv2 Network Management Framework .................... 2 3.1 Object Definitions ....................................... 3 4 Rationale for having a Network Services Monitoring MIB ..... 3 4.1 General Relationship to Other MIBs ....................... 4 4.2 Restriction of Scope ..................................... 4 4.3 Configuration Information ................................ 4 5 Application Objects ........................................ 5 6 Definitions ................................................ 5 7 Changes made since RFC 1565 ................................ 16 8 Acknowledgements ........................................... 16 9 References ................................................. 16 10 Security Considerations ................................... 17 11 Author and Chair Addresses ................................ 18 12 Full Copyright Statement .................................. 19 3. The SNMPv2 Network Management Framework The SNMPv2 Network Management Framework consists of seven major components. They are: o RFC 1902 [1] which defines the SMI, the mechanisms used for describing and naming objects for the purpose of management. o RFC 1903 [2] defines textual conventions for SNMPv2. o RFC 1904 [3] defines conformance statements for SNMPv2. o RFC 1905 [4] defines transport mappings for SNMPv2. o RFC 1906 [5] defines the protocol operations used for network access to managed objects. o RFC 1907 [6] defines the Management Information Base for SNMPv2. o RFC 1908 [7] specifies coexistance between SNMP and SNMPv2. Freed & Kille Standards Track