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Overview of the 2002 IAB Network Management Workshop
Alternative Format: Original Text Document
RFC 3535 IAB Network Management Workshop May 2003
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Network Management Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1 SNMP / SMI / MIBs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2 COPS-PR / SPPI / PIBs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.3 CIM / MOF / UML / PCIM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.4 CLI / TELNET / SSH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.5 HTTP / HTML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.6 XML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3. Operator Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4. SNMP Framework Discussions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5. Consolidated Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6. Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
8. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Appendix - Participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
1. Introduction
The IETF has started several activities in the operations and
management area to develop technologies and standards that aim to
help network operators manage their networks. The main network
management technologies currently being developed within the IETF
are:
o The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) [RFC 3410] was
created in the late 1980s. The initial version (SNMPv1) is widely
deployed, while the latest version (SNMPv3), which addresses
security requirements, is just beginning to gain significant
deployment.
o The Common Information Model (CIM) [CIM], developed by the
Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), has been extended in
cooperation with the DMTF to describe high-level policies as rule
sets (PCIM) [RFC 3060]. Mappings of the CIM policy extensions to
LDAP schemas have been defined and work continues to define
specific schema extension for QoS and security policies.
o The Common Open Policy Service (COPS) [RFC 2748] protocol has been
extended to provision configuration information on devices (COPS-
PR) [RFC 3084]. Work is underway to define data definitions for
specific services such as Differentiated Services (DiffServ).
Schoenwaelder Informational