SNMP Agent Administration Guide

SNMP Information

The following sections describe frequently asked questions and concerns about the SNMP protocol and management information bases (MIBs):

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

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)

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	iana@isi.edu

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	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

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

ITU-T (formerly CCITT) Blue Book documents (OSI NMF 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. 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

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

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

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 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