RFC2742

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Network Working Group L. Heintz Request For Comments: 2742 Cisco Systems Category: Standards Track S. Gudur

                                              Independent Consultant
                                                     M. Ellison, Ed.
                                   Ellison Software Consulting, Inc.
                                                        January 2000
   Definitions of Managed Objects for Extensible SNMP Agents

Status of this Memo

This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

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Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB) for use with network management protocols in the Internet community. In particular, it describes objects managing SNMP agents that use the Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol.

This memo specifies a MIB module in a manner that is both compliant to the SMIv2, and semantically identical to the peer SMIv1 definitions.

The SNMP Management Framework

The SNMP Management Framework presently consists of five major components:

- An overall architecture, described in RFC 2571 [1].

- Mechanisms for describing and naming objects and events for the

  purpose of management. The first version of this Structure of
  Management Information (SMI) is called SMIv1 and described in STD
  16, RFC 1155 [2], STD 16, RFC 1212 [3] and RFC 1215 [4]. The
  second version, called SMIv2, is described in STD 58, RFC 2578
  [5], STD 58, RFC 2579 [6] and STD 58, RFC 2580 [7].

- Message protocols for transferring management information. The

  first version of the SNMP message protocol is called SNMPv1 and
  described in STD 15, RFC 1157 [8]. A second version of the SNMP
  message protocol, which is not an Internet standards track
  protocol, is called SNMPv2c and described in RFC 1901 [9] and RFC
  1906 [10].  The third version of the message protocol is called
  SNMPv3 and described in RFC 1906 [10], RFC 2572 [11] and RFC 2574
  [12].

- Protocol operations for accessing management information. The

  first set of protocol operations and associated PDU formats is
  described in STD 15, RFC 1157 [8]. A second set of protocol
  operations and associated PDU formats is described in RFC 1905
  [13].

- A set of fundamental applications described in RFC 2573 [14] and

  the view-based access control mechanism described in RFC 2575
  [15].

A more detailed introduction to the current SNMP Management Framework can be found in RFC 2570 [16].

Managed objects are accessed via a virtual information store, termed the Management Information Base or MIB. Objects in the MIB are defined using the mechanisms defined in the SMI.

This memo specifies a MIB module that is compliant to the SMIv2. A MIB conforming to the SMIv1 can be produced through the appropriate translations. The resulting translated MIB must be semantically equivalent, except where objects or events are omitted because no translation is possible (use of Counter64). Some machine readable information in SMIv2 will be converted into textual descriptions in

SMIv1 during the translation process. However, this loss of machine readable information is not considered to change the semantics of the MIB.

Introduction

The SNMP Agent Extensibility Protocol (AgentX) is a protocol used to distribute the implementation of an SNMP agent amongst a single "master agent" and multiple "subagents". See [17] for details about the AgentX protocol.

The goals of the AgentX MIB are:

- List the set of subagent connections that currently have logical

  sessions open with the master agent.

- Identify each subagent connection transport address and type.

- Identify each subagent session vendor, AgentX protocol version,

  and other characteristics.

- Identify the set of MIB objects each session implements, the

  context in which the objects are registered, and the priority of
  the registration.

- Determine protocol operational parameters such as the timeout

  interval for responses from a session and the priority at which a
  session registers a particular MIB region.

- Allow (but do not require) managers to explicitly close subagent

  sessions with the master agent.

AgentX MIB Overview

This MIB is organized into four groups. The agentxGeneral group provides information describing the master agent's AgentX support, including the protocol version supported. The agentxConnection group provides information describing the current set of connections capable of carrying AgentX sessions. The agentxSession group provides information describing the current set of AgentX sessions. The agentxRegistration group provides information describing the current set of registrations.

Three tables form the heart of this mib. These are the connection, session, and registration tables.

Entries in the registration table exist in a many-to-one relationship with entries in the session table. This relationship is expressed through the two common indices, agentxSessionIndex and agentxConnIndex. Entries in the registration table also exist in a many-to-one relationship with entries in the connection table. This relationship is expressed through the common index, agentxConnIndex.

Entries in the session table exist in a many-to-one relationship with entries in the connection table. This relationship is expressed through the common index, agentxConnIndex.

Managed Object Definitions for AgentX

AGENTX-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN

IMPORTS

MODULE-IDENTITY, OBJECT-TYPE, Unsigned32, mib-2
FROM SNMPv2-SMI
SnmpAdminString
FROM SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB
MODULE-COMPLIANCE, OBJECT-GROUP
FROM SNMPv2-CONF
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION, TimeStamp, TruthValue, TDomain
FROM SNMPv2-TC;

agentxMIB MODULE-IDENTITY

LAST-UPDATED "200001100000Z" -- Midnight 10 January 2000
ORGANIZATION "AgentX Working Group"
CONTACT-INFO "WG-email:   [email protected]
           Subscribe:  [email protected]
           WG-email Archive:  ftp://ftp.peer.com/pub/agentx/archives
           FTP repository:  ftp://ftp.peer.com/pub/agentx
           http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/agentx-charter.html
           Chair:      Bob Natale
                       ACE*COMM Corporation
           Email:      [email protected]
           WG editor:  Mark Ellison
                       Ellison Software Consulting, Inc.
           Email:      [email protected]
           Co-author:  Lauren Heintz
                       Cisco Systems,
           EMail:      [email protected]
           Co-author:  Smitha Gudur
                       Independent Consultant
           Email:      [email protected]
          "
DESCRIPTION    "This is the MIB module for the SNMP Agent Extensibility
 Protocol (AgentX).  This MIB module will be implemented by
 the master agent.
"
 REVISION     "200001100000Z" -- Midnight 10 January 2000
DESCRIPTION
"Initial version published as RFC 2742."
 ::= { mib-2  74 }
-- Textual Conventions
AgentxTAddress ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION

STATUS current DESCRIPTION

 "Denotes a transport service address.  This is identical to
  the TAddress textual convention (SNMPv2-SMI) except that
  zero-length values are permitted.
 "

SYNTAX OCTET STRING (SIZE (0..255))

-- Administrative assignments
agentxObjects OBJECT IDENTIFIER      ::= { agentxMIB 1 }
agentxGeneral OBJECT IDENTIFIER      ::= { agentxObjects 1 }
agentxConnection OBJECT IDENTIFIER   ::= { agentxObjects 2 }
agentxSession OBJECT IDENTIFIER      ::= { agentxObjects 3 }
agentxRegistration OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { agentxObjects 4 }
agentxDefaultTimeout OBJECT-TYPE
 SYNTAX      INTEGER (0..255)
 UNITS       "seconds"
 MAX-ACCESS  read-only
 STATUS      current
 DESCRIPTION
 "The default length of time, in seconds, that the master
  agent should allow to elapse after dispatching a message
  to a session before it regards the subagent as not
  responding.  This is a system-wide value that may
  override the timeout value associated with a particular
  session (agentxSessionTimeout) or a particular registered
  MIB region (agentxRegTimeout).  If the associated value of
  agentxSessionTimeout and agentxRegTimeout are zero, or
  impractical in accordance with implementation-specific
  procedure of the master agent, the value represented by
  this object will be the effective timeout value for the
  master agent to await a response to a dispatch from a
  given subagent.
 "
 DEFVAL      { 5 }
 ::= { agentxGeneral 1 }
agentxMasterAgentXVer OBJECT-TYPE
 SYNTAX      INTEGER (1..255)
 MAX-ACCESS  read-only
 STATUS      current
 DESCRIPTION
 "The AgentX protocol version supported by this master agent.
  The current protocol version is 1.  Note that the master agent
  must also allow interaction with earlier version subagents.
 "
 ::= { agentxGeneral 2 }
--      The AgentX Subagent Connection Group
agentxConnTableLastChange OBJECT-TYPE
 SYNTAX      TimeStamp
 MAX-ACCESS  read-only
 STATUS      current
 DESCRIPTION
 "The value of sysUpTime when the last row creation or deletion
  occurred in the agentxConnectionTable.
 "
 ::= { agentxConnection 1 }
agentxConnectionTable OBJECT-TYPE

SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF AgentxConnectionEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION

 "The agentxConnectionTable tracks all current AgentX transport
  connections.  There may be zero, one, or more AgentX sessions
  carried on a given AgentX connection.
 "
= { agentxConnection 2 }
agentxConnectionEntry OBJECT-TYPE

SYNTAX AgentxConnectionEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current

DESCRIPTION

 "An agentxConnectionEntry contains information describing a
  single AgentX transport connection.  A connection may be
  used to support zero or more AgentX sessions.  An entry is
  created when a new transport connection is established,
  and is destroyed when the transport connection is terminated.
 "

INDEX { agentxConnIndex }

= { agentxConnectionTable 1 }
AgentxConnectionEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
      agentxConnIndex            Unsigned32,
      agentxConnOpenTime         TimeStamp,
      agentxConnTransportDomain  TDomain,
      agentxConnTransportAddress AgentxTAddress }
agentxConnIndex OBJECT-TYPE

SYNTAX Unsigned32 (1..4294967295) MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION

 "agentxConnIndex contains the value that uniquely identifies
  an open transport connection used by this master agent
  to provide AgentX service.  Values of this index should
  not be re-used.  The value assigned to a given transport
  connection is constant for the lifetime of that connection.
 "
= { agentxConnectionEntry 1 }
agentxConnOpenTime OBJECT-TYPE

SYNTAX TimeStamp MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION

 "The value of sysUpTime when this connection was established
  and, therefore, its value when this entry was added to the table.
 "
= { agentxConnectionEntry 2 }
agentxConnTransportDomain OBJECT-TYPE

SYNTAX TDomain MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION

 "The transport protocol in use for this connection to the
  subagent.
 "
= { agentxConnectionEntry 3 }
agentxConnTransportAddress OBJECT-TYPE

SYNTAX AgentxTAddress

MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION

 "The transport address of the remote (subagent) end of this
  connection to the master agent.  This object may be zero-length
  for unix-domain sockets (and possibly other types of transport
  addresses) since the subagent need not bind a filename to its
  local socket.
 "
= { agentxConnectionEntry 4 }
-- The AgentX Subagent Session Group
agentxSessionTableLastChange OBJECT-TYPE
 SYNTAX      TimeStamp
 MAX-ACCESS  read-only
 STATUS      current
 DESCRIPTION
 "The value of sysUpTime when the last row creation or deletion
  occurred in the agentxSessionTable.
 "
 ::= { agentxSession 1 }
agentxSessionTable OBJECT-TYPE
 SYNTAX      SEQUENCE OF AgentxSessionEntry
 MAX-ACCESS  not-accessible
 STATUS      current
 DESCRIPTION
 "A table of AgentX subagent sessions currently in effect.
 "
 ::= { agentxSession 2 }
agentxSessionEntry OBJECT-TYPE
 SYNTAX      AgentxSessionEntry
 MAX-ACCESS  not-accessible
 STATUS      current
 DESCRIPTION
 "Information about a single open session between the AgentX
  master agent and a subagent is contained in this entry.  An
  entry is created when a new session is successfully established
  and is destroyed either when the subagent transport connection
  has terminated or when the subagent session is closed.
 "
 INDEX       { agentxConnIndex, agentxSessionIndex }
 ::= { agentxSessionTable 1 }
AgentxSessionEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
 agentxSessionIndex         Unsigned32,
 agentxSessionObjectID      OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
 agentxSessionDescr         SnmpAdminString,
 agentxSessionAdminStatus   INTEGER,
 agentxSessionOpenTime      TimeStamp,
 agentxSessionAgentXVer     INTEGER,
 agentxSessionTimeout       INTEGER
}
agentxSessionIndex OBJECT-TYPE
 SYNTAX      Unsigned32 (0..4294967295)
 MAX-ACCESS  not-accessible
 STATUS      current
 DESCRIPTION
 "A unique index for the subagent session.  It is the same as
  h.sessionID defined in the agentx header.  Note that if
  a subagent's session with the master agent is closed for
  any reason its index should not be re-used.
  A value of zero(0) is specifically allowed in order
  to be compatible with the definition of h.sessionId.
 "
 ::= { agentxSessionEntry 1 }
agentxSessionObjectID OBJECT-TYPE
 SYNTAX      OBJECT IDENTIFIER
 MAX-ACCESS  read-only
 STATUS      current
 DESCRIPTION
 "This is taken from the o.id field of the agentx-Open-PDU.
  This attribute will report a value of '0.0' for subagents
  not supporting the notion of an AgentX session object
  identifier.
 "
 ::= { agentxSessionEntry 2 }
agentxSessionDescr OBJECT-TYPE
 SYNTAX      SnmpAdminString
 MAX-ACCESS  read-only
 STATUS      current
 DESCRIPTION
 "A textual description of the session.  This is analogous to
  sysDescr defined in the SNMPv2-MIB in RFC 1907 [19] and is
  taken from the o.descr field of the agentx-Open-PDU.
  This attribute will report a zero-length string value for
  subagents not supporting the notion of a session description.
 "
 ::= { agentxSessionEntry 3 }
agentxSessionAdminStatus OBJECT-TYPE
 SYNTAX      INTEGER {
             up(1),
             down(2)
          }
 MAX-ACCESS  read-write
 STATUS      current
 DESCRIPTION
 "The administrative (desired) status of the session.  Setting
  the value to 'down(2)' closes the subagent session (with c.reason
  set to 'reasonByManager').
 "
 ::= { agentxSessionEntry 4 }
agentxSessionOpenTime OBJECT-TYPE
 SYNTAX      TimeStamp
 MAX-ACCESS  read-only
 STATUS      current
 DESCRIPTION
 "The value of sysUpTime when this session was opened and,
  therefore, its value when this entry was added to the table.
 "
 ::= { agentxSessionEntry 5 }
agentxSessionAgentXVer OBJECT-TYPE
 SYNTAX      INTEGER (1..255)
 MAX-ACCESS  read-only
 STATUS      current
 DESCRIPTION
 "The version of the AgentX protocol supported by the
  session.  This must be less than or equal to the value of
  agentxMasterAgentXVer.
 "
 ::= { agentxSessionEntry 6 }
agentxSessionTimeout OBJECT-TYPE
 SYNTAX     INTEGER (0..255)
 UNITS      "seconds"
 MAX-ACCESS read-only
 STATUS     current
 DESCRIPTION
 "The length of time, in seconds, that a master agent should
  allow to elapse after dispatching a message to this session
  before it regards the subagent as not responding.  This value
  is taken from the o.timeout field of the agentx-Open-PDU.
  This is a session-specific value that may be overridden by
  values associated with the specific registered MIB regions
  (see agentxRegTimeout). A value of zero(0) indicates that
  the master agent's default timeout value should be used
  (see agentxDefaultTimeout).
 "
 ::= { agentxSessionEntry 7 }
-- The AgentX Registration Group
agentxRegistrationTableLastChange OBJECT-TYPE
 SYNTAX      TimeStamp
 MAX-ACCESS  read-only
 STATUS      current
 DESCRIPTION
 "The value of sysUpTime when the last row creation or deletion
  occurred in the agentxRegistrationTable.
 "
 ::= { agentxRegistration 1 }
agentxRegistrationTable OBJECT-TYPE
 SYNTAX      SEQUENCE OF AgentxRegistrationEntry
 MAX-ACCESS  not-accessible
 STATUS      current
 DESCRIPTION
 "A table of registered regions.
 "
 ::= { agentxRegistration 2 }
agentxRegistrationEntry OBJECT-TYPE
 SYNTAX      AgentxRegistrationEntry
 MAX-ACCESS  not-accessible
 STATUS      current
 DESCRIPTION
 "Contains information for a single registered region.  An
  entry is created when a session  successfully registers a
  region and is destroyed for any of three reasons: this region
  is unregistered by the session, the session is closed,
  or the subagent connection is closed.
 "
 INDEX       { agentxConnIndex, agentxSessionIndex, agentxRegIndex }
 ::= { agentxRegistrationTable 1 }
AgentxRegistrationEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
 agentxRegIndex           Unsigned32,
 agentxRegContext         OCTET STRING,
 agentxRegStart           OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
 agentxRegRangeSubId      Unsigned32,
 agentxRegUpperBound      Unsigned32,
 agentxRegPriority        Unsigned32,
 agentxRegTimeout         INTEGER,
 agentxRegInstance        TruthValue }
agentxRegIndex OBJECT-TYPE
 SYNTAX      Unsigned32 (1..4294967295)
 MAX-ACCESS  not-accessible
 STATUS      current
 DESCRIPTION
 "agentxRegIndex uniquely identifies a registration entry.
  This value is constant for the lifetime of an entry.
 "
 ::= { agentxRegistrationEntry 1 }
agentxRegContext OBJECT-TYPE
 SYNTAX      OCTET STRING
 MAX-ACCESS  read-only
 STATUS      current
 DESCRIPTION
 "The context in which the session supports the objects in this
  region.  A zero-length context indicates the default context.
 "
 ::= { agentxRegistrationEntry 2 }
agentxRegStart OBJECT-TYPE
 SYNTAX      OBJECT IDENTIFIER
 MAX-ACCESS  read-only
 STATUS      current
 DESCRIPTION
 "The starting OBJECT IDENTIFIER of this registration entry.  The
  session identified by agentxSessionIndex implements objects
  starting at this value (inclusive).  Note that this value could
  identify an object type, an object instance, or a partial object
  instance.
 "
 ::= { agentxRegistrationEntry 3 }
agentxRegRangeSubId OBJECT-TYPE
 SYNTAX      Unsigned32
 MAX-ACCESS  read-only
 STATUS      current
 DESCRIPTION
 "agentxRegRangeSubId is used to specify the range.  This is
  taken from r.region_subid in the registration PDU.  If the value
  of this object is zero, no range is specified.  If it is non-zero,
  it identifies the `nth' sub-identifier in r.region for which
  this entry's agentxRegUpperBound value is substituted in the
  OID for purposes of defining the region's upper bound.
 "
 ::= { agentxRegistrationEntry 4 }
agentxRegUpperBound OBJECT-TYPE
 SYNTAX      Unsigned32
 MAX-ACCESS  read-only
 STATUS      current
 DESCRIPTION
"agentxRegUpperBound represents the upper-bound sub-identifier in
 a registration.  This is taken from the r.upper_bound in the
 registration PDU.  If agentxRegRangeSubid (r.region_subid) is
 zero, this value is also zero and is not used to define an upper
 bound for this registration.
"
 ::= { agentxRegistrationEntry 5 }
agentxRegPriority OBJECT-TYPE
 SYNTAX      Unsigned32
 MAX-ACCESS  read-only
 STATUS      current
 DESCRIPTION
 "The registration priority.  Lower values have higher priority.
  This value is taken from r.priority in the register PDU.
  Sessions should use the value of 127 for r.priority if a
  default value is desired.
 "
 ::= { agentxRegistrationEntry 6 }
agentxRegTimeout OBJECT-TYPE
 SYNTAX      INTEGER (0..255)
 UNITS       "seconds"
 MAX-ACCESS  read-only
 STATUS      current
 DESCRIPTION
 "The timeout value, in seconds, for responses to
  requests associated with this registered MIB region.
  A value of zero(0) indicates the default value (indicated
  by by agentxSessionTimeout or agentxDefaultTimeout) is to
  be used.  This value is taken from the r.timeout field of
  the agentx-Register-PDU.
 "
 ::= { agentxRegistrationEntry 7 }
agentxRegInstance OBJECT-TYPE
 SYNTAX      TruthValue
 MAX-ACCESS  read-only
 STATUS      current
 DESCRIPTION
 "The value of agentxRegInstance is `true' for
  registrations for which the INSTANCE_REGISTRATION
  was set, and is `false' for all other registrations.
 "
 ::= { agentxRegistrationEntry 8 }
-- Conformance Statements for AgentX
agentxConformance     OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { agentxMIB 2 }
agentxMIBGroups       OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { agentxConformance 1 }
agentxMIBCompliances  OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { agentxConformance 2 }
-- Compliance Statements for AgentX
agentxMIBCompliance MODULE-COMPLIANCE
 STATUS      current
 DESCRIPTION
 "The compliance statement for SNMP entities that implement the
  AgentX protocol.  Note that a compliant agent can implement all
  objects in this MIB module as read-only.
 "
 MODULE -- this module
 MANDATORY-GROUPS  { agentxMIBGroup }
 OBJECT agentxSessionAdminStatus
    MIN-ACCESS read-only
    DESCRIPTION
       "Write access is not required.
       "
 ::= { agentxMIBCompliances 1 }
agentxMIBGroup OBJECT-GROUP
 OBJECTS {
 agentxDefaultTimeout,
 agentxMasterAgentXVer,
 agentxConnTableLastChange,
 agentxConnOpenTime,
 agentxConnTransportDomain,
 agentxConnTransportAddress,
 agentxSessionTableLastChange,
 agentxSessionTimeout,
 agentxSessionObjectID,
 agentxSessionDescr,
 agentxSessionAdminStatus,
 agentxSessionOpenTime,
 agentxSessionAgentXVer,
 agentxRegistrationTableLastChange,
 agentxRegContext,
 agentxRegStart,
 agentxRegRangeSubId,
 agentxRegUpperBound,
 agentxRegPriority,
 agentxRegTimeout,
 agentxRegInstance
}
 STATUS      current
 DESCRIPTION
 "All accessible objects in the AgentX MIB.
 "
 ::= { agentxMIBGroups 1 }
END

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Acknowledgements

This document is the result of the efforts of the IETF AgentX Working Group (WG).

This MIB is an evolution of the Subagent MIB by Bert Wijnen ([email protected]) which in turn was derived from the SMUX-MIB by Marshall Rose [18].

Thanks are in order to the following AgentX WG members:

   Mike Daniele (Compaq Computer Corporation)
   Dale Francisco (Cisco Systems)
   Bob Natale (ACE*COMM Corporation)
   Randy Presuhn (BMC Software, Inc.)
   Shawn Routhier (Epilogue)
   Mike Thatcher (Independent Consultant)

Special acknowledgement is made to:

   Maria Greene (Xedia)

Special acknowledgement is also made to the following individuals for participating in the 1998 AgentX testing summit (bakeoff) held in Sunnyvale, California:

   Jeff Case (SNMP Research, Inc.)
   Mike Daniele (Compaq Computer Corporation)
   Mark Ellison (Ellison Software Consulting, Inc.)
   Lauren Heintz (BMC Software, Inc.)
   Verne Hyde (Independent Consultant)
   Bob Natale (ACE*COMM Corporation)
   Shawn Routhier (Epilogue)
   Mike Thatcher (Independent Consultant)
   Bert Wijnen (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)

Security Considerations

There is a single management object defined in this MIB that has a MAX-ACCESS clause of read-write. This object may be considered sensitive or vulnerable in some network environments. The support for SET operations in a non-secure environment without proper protection can have a negative effect on network operations.

There is a single managed object in this MIB that may contain sensitive information. This object is agentxSessionAdminStatus. Setting agentxSessionAdminStatus to an inappropriate value can effectively prevent access to management information, or provide access to inappropriate information.

It is thus important to control even GET access to these objects and possibly to even encrypt the values of these objects when sending them over the network via SNMP. Not all versions of SNMP provide features for such a secure environment.

SNMPv1 by itself is not a secure environment. Even if the network itself is secure (for example by using IPSec), even then, there is no control as to who on the secure network is allowed to access and GET/SET (read/change/create/delete) the objects in this MIB.

It is recommended that the implementers consider the security features as provided by the SNMPv3 framework. Specifically, the use of the User-based Security Model RFC 2574 [12] and the View-based Access Control Model RFC 2575 [15] is recommended.

It is then a customer/user responsibility to ensure that the SNMP entity giving access to an instance of this MIB, is properly configured to give access to the objects only to those principals (users) that have legitimate rights to indeed GET or SET (change/delete) them.

References

[1] Harrington, D., Presuhn, R. and B. Wijnen, "An Architecture for

    Describing SNMP Management Frameworks", RFC 2571, April 1999.

[2] Rose, M. and K. McCloghrie, "Structure and Identification of

    Management Information for TCP/IP-based Internets", STD 16, RFC
    1155, May 1990.

[3] Rose, M. and K. McCloghrie, "Concise MIB Definitions", STD 16,

    RFC 1212, March 1991.

[4] Rose, M., "A Convention for Defining Traps for use with the

    SNMP", RFC 1215, March 1991.

[5] McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J., Rose,

    M. and S. Waldbusser, "Structure of Management Information
    Version 2 (SMIv2)", STD 58, RFC 2578, April 1999.

[6] McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J.,

    Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser, "Textual Conventions for SMIv2", STD
    58, RFC 2579, April 1999.

[7] McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J., Rose,

    M. and S. Waldbusser, "Conformance Statements for SMIv2", STD
    58, RFC 2580, April 1999.

[8] Case, J., Fedor, M., Schoffstall, M. and J. Davin, "Simple

    Network Management Protocol", STD 15, RFC 1157, May 1990.

[9] Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser,

    "Introduction to Community-based SNMPv2", RFC 1901, January
    1996.

[10] Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser,

    "Transport Mappings for Version 2 of the Simple Network
    Management Protocol (SNMPv2)", RFC 1906, January 1996.

[11] Case, J., Harrington D., Presuhn R. and B. Wijnen, "Message

    Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management
    Protocol (SNMP)", RFC 2572, April 1999.

[12] Blumenthal, U. and B. Wijnen, "User-based Security Model (USM)

    for version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol
    (SNMPv3)", RFC 2574, April 1999.

[13] Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser, "Protocol

    Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management
    Protocol (SNMPv2)", RFC 1905, January 1996.

[14] Levi, D., Meyer, P. and B. Stewart, "SNMP Applications", RFC

    2573, April 1999.

[15] Wijnen, B., Presuhn, R. and K. McCloghrie, "View-based Access

    Control Model (VACM) for the Simple Network Management Protocol
    (SNMP)", RFC 2575, April 1999.

[16] Case, J., Mundy, R., Partain, D. and B. Stewart, "Introduction

    to Version 3 of the Internet-standard Network Management
    Framework", RFC 2570, April 1999.

[17] Daniele, M., Wijnen, B., Ellison, M. and D. Francisco, "Agent

    Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol, Version 1", RFC 2741, January
    2000.

[18] Rose, M., "SNMP MUX Protocol and MIB", RFC 1227, May 1991.

[19] Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser,

    "Management Information Base for Version 2 of the Simple Network
    Management Protocol (SNMPv2)", RFC 1907, January 1996.

Authors' and Editor's Addresses

Lauren Heintz Cisco Systems 1450 North McDowell Blvd. Petaluma, CA 94954-6515 USA Phone: +1 707-793-1714 EMail: [email protected]

Smitha Gudur Independent Consultant EMail: [email protected]

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