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SMIng - Next Generation Structure of Management Information
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Network Working Group F. Strauss
Request for Comments: 3780 TU Braunschweig
Category: Experimental J. Schoenwaelder
International University Bremen
May 2004
SMIng - Next Generation Structure of Management Information
Status of this Memo
This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet
community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested.
Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This memo defines the base SMIng (Structure of Management
Information, Next Generation) language. SMIng is a data definition
language that provides a protocol-independent representation for
management information. Separate RFCs define mappings of SMIng to
specific management protocols, including SNMP.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. The History of SMIng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2. Terms of Requirement Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. SMIng Data Modeling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.1. Identifiers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3. Base Types and Derived Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.1. OctetString. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.2. Pointer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.3. ObjectIdentifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.4. Integer32. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.5. Integer64. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.6. Unsigned32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.7. Unsigned64 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.8. Float32. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.9. Float64. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.10. Float128 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.11. Enumeration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.12. Bits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
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