This appendix deals with some frequently expressed questions and concerns about the SNMP protocol and Management Information Bases (MIBs). It includes the following sections:

• "Reference Books" lists books with additional information about MIBs, agents, or the SNMP protocol.

• "Obtaining MIBs" lists vendor-specific MIBs and MIBs under development.

• "Enterprise ID Assignment" lists information on where to obtain an enterprise ID assignment if you want to develop your own private MIB.

• "Obtaining RFCs" contains information on how and where to obtain Requests for Comments (RFCs).

• "Obtaining Specifications" lists information on how and where to obtain specifications for SNMP.

• "Mailing Lists and News Groups" lists news and mail groups that provide general information about SNMP.

• "Standards and Drafts" lists the available standards and drafts for SNMP.

• "Accessing Internet-Drafts" lists all internet draft directories that are available world-wide.

Reference Books

If you need additional information about MIBs, agents, or the SNMP protocol, refer to these books:

• Comer, Douglas; Internetworking with TCP/IP, Vol. 2; Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1991

• Leinwand, Allan and Fang, Karen; Network Management: A Practical Perspective; Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1993

• Rose, Marshall T.; The Simple Book: An Introduction to Management of TCP/IP-based Internets; Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1991

• Rose, Marshall T.; The Open Book: A Practical Perspective on Open Systems Interconnection; Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1989

• Miller, Mark; Managing Internetworks with SNMP, M & T Books

• Stallings, William; SNMP, SNMPv2 and CMIP: The Practical Guide to Network Management Standards, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1993

Obtaining MIBs

The following is a list of vendor-specific MIBs and MIBs under development. These MIBs are available via anonymous FTP at the indicated IP address:

• venera.isi.edu [128.9.0.32] in directory mib (for vendor MIBs)

• nic.ddn.mil [192.67.67.20] in directory internet-drafts

• nnsc.nsf.net [192.31.103.6] in directory internet-drafts

• munnari.oz.au [128.250.1.21] in directory internet-drafts (Pacific Rim)

• nic.nordu.net [192.36.148.17] in directory internet-drafts (Europe)

Enterprise ID Assignment

If you want to develop your own private MIB, you must obtain an enterprise ID assignment from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.

Obtaining RFCs

You can obtain Requests for Comments in the following ways:

• Download them from almost anywhere on the Internet

• Obtain them from SRI International

  Mailing Address	SRI International, EJ291 DDN Network Information Center 333 Ravenswood Ave. Menlo Park CA 94025
  Phone	+1.800.235.3155
  e-mail	MAIL-SERVER@nisc.sri.com Leave the subject field blank. In the body, enter: SEND RFCnnnn.TXT-1
  FTP	ftp://ftp.nisc.sri.com/rfc/rfcNNNN.txt

Obtaining Specifications

If you need specifications for SNMP, refer to the following sources:

• IEEE and ISO/IEC[IEEE] Standards

  Mailing Address	Service Center 445 Hoes Lane PO Box 1331 Piscataway NJ 08855-1331
  Phone	+1.800.678.4333

• IEEE drafts

  Mailing Address

  IEEE Computer Society Documents c/o AlphaGraphics ATTN: P. Thrush 10215 N. 35th Ave., Suite A & B Phoenix AZ 85051

• ISO and ISO/IEC documents

  Mailing Address

  American National Standards Institute 1430 Broadway New York NY 10018 USA

OSI NMF Documents

• ITU-T (formerly CCITT) Blue Book documents:

  FTP	ftp://bruno.cs.colordo.edu ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/bruno.cs.colorado.edu/pub/standards ftp://ftp.uu.net/doc/standards
  FTP	Europe: ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/doc/ccitt-standards ftp://nic.ja.net/doc/ccitt-standards

Mailing Lists and News Groups

The following news and mail groups provide general information about SNMP. Also, contact BEA Manager Customer Support. (See the customer support card included in your BEA Manager product box).

SNMP in general

snmp-request@uu.psi.com

RMON MIB

rmonmib-request@lexcel.com

Security issues

snmp-sec-dev-request@tis.com

Device discovery

finder-request@emerald.acc.com

The following standards and drafts are available for SNMP.

Accessing Internet-Drafts

Internet-Drafts are available by anonymous FTP. Log in with the username anonymous and password guest. After logging in, type cd internet-drafts.

Internet-Drafts directories are located at:

Internet-Drafts are also available by mail. Send e-mail to mailserv@ds.intermic.net. In the body, type:

FILE/internet-drafts-ietf-rdbmsmib-mib-02.txt

For questions, please send e-mail to:

Internet-Drafts@cnri.seston.va.us