SNMP Information

 

This appendix discusses frequently asked questions and concerns about the SNMP protocol and Management Information Bases (MIBs). It includes the following sections:

• Reference Books

• Obtaining MIBs

• Enterprise ID Assignmentt

• Obtaining Requests for Comments

• Obtaining Specifications

• Mailing Lists and News Groups

• Standards and Drafts

• Accessing Internet Drafts

 

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Reference Books

The following books provide additional information about MIBs, agents, or the SNMP protocol:

• 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

 

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Obtaining MIBs

The vendor-specific MIBs and MIBs under development in the following list 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)

 

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Enterprise ID Assignment

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

Contact	Joyce K. Reynolds
Mailing Address	Internet Assigned Numbers Authority USC/Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
Phone	+1.323.822.1511
e-mail	[e-mail]

 

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Obtaining Requests for Comments

You can obtain Requests for Comments (RFCs) in either of 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	[e-mail] Leave the subject field blank. In the body, enter: SEND RFCnnnn.TXT-1
  FTP	ftp://ftp.nisc.sri.com/rfc/rfcNNNN.txt

 

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Obtaining Specifications

Refer to the following sources for SNMP specifications:

• 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

 

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Mailing Lists and News Groups

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

SNMP in general

[e-mail]

RMON MIB

[e-mail]

Security issues

[e-mail]

Device discovery

[e-mail]

 

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Standards and Drafts

The following standards and drafts are available for SNMP:

RFC Number	Description
052	IAB Recommendations
1089	SNMP over Ethernet
1109	Ad-hoc Review
1155	Structure of Management Information
1156	Management Information Base (MIB-I)
1157	SNMP
1161	SNMP over OSI
1187	Bulk table retrieval
1212	Concise MIB definitions
1213	Management Information Base (MIB-II)
1214	OSI MIB
1215	Traps
1227	SNMP Multiplex (SMUX)
1228	SNMP-DPI
1229	Generic-interface MIB extensions
1230 IEEE 802.4	Token Bus MIB
1231 IEEE 802.5	Token Ring MIB
1239	Reassignment of MIBs
1243	AppleTalk MIB
1248	OSPF MIB
ISO 8824	ASN.1
ISO 8825	BER for ASN.1

 

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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:

US East Coast	ftp://ds.intermic.net/internet-drafts
US West Coast	ftp://ftp.isi.edu/internet-drafts
Pacific Rim	ftp://munnari.oz.au/internet-drafts
Europe	ftp://nic.nordu.net/internet-drafts

Internet drafts are also available by mail. Send e-mail to [e-mail]. In the body, type:

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

For questions, please send e-mail to:

[e-mail]

 

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