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PART 2 of 2
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - FAQ
Simple Network Management Protocol
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>We have begun making this FAQ more of a WWW tool by including more URLs.
> New books from Bill Stallings and Leinwand-and-Fang.
> Some stuff about SNMPv1.5 (or, SNMPv2* if you prefer)
> Miscellaneous corrections submitted by readers.
Note on host names and addresses: please email me with any changes
to host names and IP addresses. The MIT host rtfm has an autoresponder
which always replies to postings with an incorrect IP. It would be
nice if every host had that, but they don't, so I need your assistance.
~Subject: TABLE OF CONTENTS
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FAQ PART 1 of 2: NOT IN THIS DOCUMENT
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@0. What is the purpose of this FAQ?
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@0.1 Where can I Obtain This FAQ?
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@I. General Questions about SNMP and SNMPv2
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@1. What is SNMP?
@2. What is an RFC?
@3. Where can I get RFC text?
@4. What books are there which cover SNMP?
@5. What periodicals are heavily oriented to SNMP?
@6. What classes are available on the topic of SNMP?
@7. Who are some leading authorities of SNMP?
@8. What discussion groups are available for SNMP?
@9. What trade shows cater to SNMP?
@10. What SNMP product User Groups are available.
@11. Where can I find SNMP-related material on WWW?
@20. What is SNMPv2?
@20a. What is SNMPv2*/SNMPv1+/SNMPv1.5?
@30. What is RMON?
@31. RMON Standardization Status
@32. RMON Working Group.
@33. Joining the RMON Working Group Mailing List
@34. Historical RMON Records
@35. RMON Documents
@39. What is ISODE?
@39a. Where can I get ISODE?
FAQ PART 2 of 2:
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@40. What is CMIP?
@41. What books should I read about CMIP?
@50. What is OMNIPoint?
@II. SNMP Software and Related Products
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@1. Where can I get SNMP software?
@2. What CMIP software is available?
@III. MIBS
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@1. What is a MIB?
@2. What are MIB-I and MIB-II
@3. What are enterprise MIBs?
@4. Where can I get enterprise MIBs?
@5. How can I register an enterprise MIB?
@5a. Where can I find the current Enterprise Number Assignments?
@6. What is the SMI?
@7. What is ASN.1?
@Appendix A. Glossary
@Appendix B. Acknowledgements & Credits
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@40.
~Subject: What is CMIP?
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YES, we do need to mention it here!
Paul Rolland writes from France:
"CMIP is the Common Management Information Protocol. It is an OSI
protocol that has been defined for Network Management. It comes
together with the CMIS (Commom Management Information Service).
This service provides :
monitoring: in this case, you are using CMIP to gain information,
control: you can manipulate objects that you manage,
reporting: Managed objects can tell you something wrong is
happening."
@41.
~Subject: What books should I read about CMIP?
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The collected OSI specifications are of sufficient bulk
to sink a small craft in calm waters. Start easy:
A. The Open Book: A Practical Perspective on OSI
by: Marshall T. Rose
ISBN 0-13-643016-3
(c) 1990 Prentice-Hall, Inc
B. Open Systems Networking: OSI & TCP/IP
by: David Piscitello & A. L. Chapin
ISBN 0-201-56334-7
(c) 1993 Addison-Wesley
C. SNMP, SNMPv2 and CMIP: The Practical Guide to
Network Management Standards
by: William Stallings
ISBN 0-201-63331-0
(c) 1993 Addison-Wesley Publishing Co, Inc
42 - 49 Reserved
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@50.
~Subject: What is OMNIPoint?
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"A common approach to the integrated management of
networked information systems."
In practical terms, a vehicle for helping to bridge
the standards gap between SNMP and OSI/CMIP so that
the end user customer can reap the benefits of both.
A product of the:
Network Management Forum
40 Morristown Road
Bernardsville, NJ 07924
Ph: 908-766-1544
Fx: 908-766-5741
A catalog of products is available.
@II.
~Subject: SNMP Software and Related Products
@1.
~Subject: Where can I get SNMP software?
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A. Public Domain:
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a. Carnegie-Mellon University
4910 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
ftp from lancaster.andrew.cmu.edu (128.2.13.21)
both SNMP and SNMPv2 are available.
> ***** IMPORTANT *****
> This server is now known as FTP.NET.CMU.EDU. Please connect to that
> hostname. In the near future, the anonymous server will no longer be
> associated with LANCASTER.ANDREW.CMU.EDU so connections there will not
> work.
There is no FAQ, and CMU does not generally answer
questions about their software. There are man pages
in the tar file, and the code is well documented
and easy to follow.
b. MIT
Cambridge, Massachusetts
ftp from thyme.lcs.mit.edu at /pub/snmp (18.26.0.115)
c. Christophe Meessen writes:
>I've put a small package on a ftp server that relates to SNMP.
>It is a minimal set of BER assembling/disassembling primitives
>needed to implement SNMPv1 or SNMPv2.
>BER compilation primitives compile in reverse. That is they compile
>from the last byte toward the first byte. This result in the
>simplest BER compilation code.
>The exact path is ftp.in2p3.fr (134.158.69.153) /pub/snmp/ber
d. NAS HNMS (NAS Hierarchical Network Management System)
[What follows is a much-edited post from Jude A. George]
HNMS is the NAS Hierarchical Management System -- an SNMP- and
X Windows- based software package for monitoring large,
heterogeneous IP networks.
[.. deletions here by Editor.. ]
VERSION 2.0c3
NOTICE There is a version of the software that we sent to COSMIC,
which is NASA's technology transfer organization at the
University of Georgia. As of yet, COSMIC is still putting
together their distribution.
Anyone can get a copy of HNMS v2.0c3 directly from COSMIC,
and expand/revise/modify/redistribute it. However, if you do
redistribute it, the following provisions are in effect:
You MAY NOT: make minor changes and re-release the entire
package with your own copyright.
You MAY: make make minor changes and copyright only
the changes.
You MAY: make major ( > 50% ) changes, and copyright
the whole work.
[.. deletions here by Editor.. ]
For sample screen snapshots, try the following in your favorite
WWW viewer:
ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/heyjude/SCREEN1.gif
ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/heyjude/SCREEN2.gif
There is an HNMS mailing list, maintained by Jason Thorpe at Oregon
State University. To subscribe to the list, send mail to
majordomo@maillist.cs.orst.edu,
[ message body ]
subscribe hnms-users [your e-mail address, optional]
For help, send the message body 'help'. Questions about the list may
be sent to owner-hnms-users@maillist.cs.orst.edu.
e. The UT-SNMP projectgroup
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description: Currently, we are building version 4 of the
UT-SNMP package. In this new version we initialize
the PartyMIB by a configuration file(s). The layout
of this initialization file is defined and described
in the "SNMPv2 Administrative Configuration Proposal"
by Dave Perkins and John Seligson (Synoptics).
Some projectmembers have made software to
create those configuration file(s) in a very
convenient manner. The software asks some simple
questions and depending on the input generates the
initialization file(s).
package: UT-PERKINS-1_0.tar.Z
programmers: Martijn Visser & Erwin Bonsma.
postal: The UT-SNMP projectgroup
Tele-Informatics and Open Systems Group
Department of Computer Science
P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
voice: +31 53 894099
email: snmp@cs.utwente.nl
www:
http://snmp.cs.uwtente.nl/General/snmp-faq.html
ftp:
ftp://ftp.cs.utwente.nl:/pub/src/snmp
f. The tkined & scotty network management system
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The Technical University of Braunschweig has developed an
extensible network management platform which uses the
Tool Command Language (Tcl) as its primary extensions
language.
The tkined network editor is the graphical user interface
which integrates applications that are usually written as
Tcl scripts based on the scotty Tcl extension. scotty provides
access to SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 and a number of well known
Internet services like DNS, various ICMP packets, NTP, TCP,
UDP, SUN RPCs (mount, rstat, portmap) etc.
Applications distributed with the scotty and tkined sources
include network discovery, trouble-shooting applications,
event filter, SNMP MIB browser etc. An experimental MIB
browser is also available via WWW using the URL:
http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/ibr/cgi-bin/sbrowser.cgi
The SNMP Tcl extension uses a SNMPv1/v2 protocol stack written
from scratch which was designed to directly support our Tcl
API. This provides a portable and fast implementation. A brief
history on SNMP Tcl extension is available using the URL:
http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/ibr/projects/nm/scotty/tcl+snmp.html
Information about the current status of the project, the
mailing list and the availability of our software can be
found at:
http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/ibr/projects/nm/tkined/
http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/ibr/projects/nm/scotty/
g. SNMPt and the WILMA package
SNMPt-1.4 (Toolkit kernel)
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- *FULL* documentation in *ENGLISH* (about 130 pages)
- compiles on HP, SUN4.1.3, LINUX, AIX
- includes the counters of the snmp group of the MIB-II
- source for 'barefoot' manager commands:
+ snmpget
+ snmpset
+ snmpnext
+ snmpwalk
+ snmptrap
- error handling improved
- goodies: TCP and TELNET support for client/server management
MibCompiler-1.2 (ASN.1 compiler kernel)
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- precompiled versions available for
+ HP/UX 9.0 (MC680x0, HP-PA)
+ Linux
SimAgent-1.1 (Agent simulator for test purposes)
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- uses MibCompiler-1.2
mibc-1.2 (MIB compiler)
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- some bugs have been removed
- compatible with SNMPt-1.4
snmpm-3.2 (MIB browser)
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- new layout of the windows
- menu always visible
- 'find' function
- can send SET REQUESTS
- merges and displays MIBs found on agents and on the compiler
- now ANSI-C source
- many bugs have been removed
mibII-1.1 (MIB-II agent)
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- uses SNMPt-1.4
- now, two groups of the standard are supported
(some others still missing - sorry)
Xldv-1.2 (widgets)
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- fully ANSI-C
- use mmak-5.2
SMI-1.0 (ASN.1 definitions for MIBs)
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- header files for mibc
- some ASN.1 sources of MIBs
mmak-5.2 (multiplatform project manager and makefile generator)
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- some bugs have been removed
- recursively scans for #include "xxx.h"
- supports new platform names
+ hp.pa
+ hp.68k
+ sun
+ linux
+ aix
- supports an improved version and release management system
- knows .asn1 files and mibc
The new releases are available on our ftp server using the standard
anonymous ftp access (XMosaic access is supported partially by HTML files!).
ftp://ftp.ldv.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de:/dist/WILMA
For installation read the INSTALLATION_INSTRUCTIONS.html document.
You may also be interested in what is COMING_SOON.html.
For questions and comments, send E-Mail to
wilma@ldv.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de
i. (from Mark Wallace)
The comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc faq had this info on a DOS SNMP
monitor package:
Downright Speculation
SNMP monitor Free
Available at
file://sun.soe.clarkson.edu/pub/packet-drivers/snmpsrc.zip.
Also available at
file://enh.nist.gov/misc/snmpsrc.zip, snmpsup.zip,snmpsun.tar_Z.
j. from UC Davis (see FTP list in Part 1 )
k. from pwilson:
New portable SNMP agent distribution is available under GPL.
We call it snmp95. It is available for anonymous ftp from
ftp://ftp.std.com/vendors/snmp/snmp95/snmp95.tar.Z
As well as number of other products named xxxx95 it is rather
a transtional product representing current intermediate state
of SNMPv1 -> SNMPv2 transition.
First, let me describe what is there.
1. It is bi-lingual SNMPv1/SNMPv2 implementation based on the
recent drafts, which will change along with draft changes.
2. It includes two agents: base agent which will compile and run
on all kinds of UNIXes, but without MIB-II and agent which will
compile and run on SVR4/386 UNIX. Latter one has driver/kernel
based (Karl are you reading ?) implementation of MIB-II for streams
based TCP/IP.
3. Long time ago the thing was started from CMU-SNMP code, so it still
shares common philosophy and some familiar names. At the same time
basic SNMP library has error detection/reporting added to fully
support new errors required by SNMPv2. Agent to MIB interface
is also improved - MIBs can be hooked on the agent as binary modules.
4. The general design philosophy is to have a predictable minimal load
on the underlying managed system from SNMP agent (e.g. agent does not
use malloc's) while providing commercial level of capabilities: binary
extensibility, fully implemented SETs and error-code support.
5. Admin/security portion of the code is separated from the rest of the
code. So, if any new admin models will surface no changes in MIB or
agent code will be required, unless some creative statistics will
be stacked in.
6. Code is extremely portable. Practically 99% of system dependent
code is contained within driver itself. I do not think that it
will take more than a couple of days to port it to something else.
7. Simple community based admin model codes are provided. An absolutely
trivial one with base agent and a little bit more sophisticated
with svr4x86 one.
8. Code is lightly tested in the respect that it will perform gets and
get-nexts on all variables in MIB-II, supported by underlying system.
It will also perform SETs on all read-write variables in MIB-II and
in ipForwardTable, except tcpConnState. What was not tested yet is that
phase1 one of SET will reject absolutely all thinkable wrong routes
without allowing for commit phase to take place: there is practically
unlimited number of wrong routes. So, we tested against some most evident
wrong ones but this is not finished yet.
ralex@world.std.com
pwilson@world.std.com
l. ISODE -- see section 39 in Part 1 of this FAQ
B. Proprietary:
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a. SNMP Research
3001 Kimberlin Heights Road
Knoxville, TN 37920-9716
Ph: 615-573-1434
Fx: 615-573-9197
Email: John Southwood, john@snmp.com
SNMP agents, extensible agents, managers, tools, etc.
In Europe:
SNMP Research International, Inc
David Partain, Managing Director
Teknikringen 1
S-583 30 Linkoping
Sweden
Fax/Phone +46 13 21 18 81
EMail: partain@europe.snmp.com
WWW Sites:
http://www.int.snmp.com
http://www.snmp.com
b. Epilogue Technology Corp.
11116 Desert Classic Lane
Albuquerque, NM 87111
"Envoy(tm), Emissary, Attache, Attache Plus, Ambassador:
Portable SNMPv1 & SNMPv2 agent/manager, MIB Compiler,
UDP/IP & TCP/IP protocol stacks, RMON agent"
Ph: +1-805-650-7107 or (505) 271-9933
Fax: +1-805-650-7108 or (505) 271-9798
Email: David Preston, djp@epilogue.com
Australasian/Pacific Rim Distributor
Internode Systems Pty Ltd
414 Goodwood Road, PO Box 69, Daw Park SA 5041 Australia
Email: Simon Hackett, simon@internode.com.au [Technical]
Sales Folk, sales@internode.com.au [Sales]
Ph: +61-8-373-1020
Fax: +61-8-373-4911
c. PEER Networks
1190 Saratoga Avenue, suite 130,
San Jose, Ca. 95129-34433
Phone 408-556-0720
Fax 408-556-0735
EMAIL sales@peer.com
Providers of [in their words] ...
"OPTIMA, the multi-protocol, multi-vendor SNMP solution. Includes
open, configurable protocols and powerful development tools."
d. Paul Freeman Associates, Inc.
14 Pleasant St., P. O. Box 2067
Westford, MA 01886-5067
Voice: 508-692-4436
Email: pwilson@world.std.com
"Universal SNMP Agent (tm): extensible and portable V1+V2
agent in source form for installation on any platform, under
any OS, with any transport. Also available as drop-in binary
with MIB-II for SVR4."
e. [Reference Deleted]
f. NetPort
(408) 257-4907 Voice:
jbartas@sunlight.com email
"NetPort is a vendor of portable SNMP agents & protocol
stacks, and we also provide SNMP consulting services.
Also, we will be releasing a series of DOS utilitys as
freeware (executables will be available for free) in a few
weeks. Call for details. "
[EDITOR'S NOTE: SOMEONE WHO TRIED TO CONTACT NetPort
ABOUT THEIR OFFERING COULD NOT SUCCEED. NetPort MAY BE
DEFUNCT.]
g. Empire Technologies, Inc.
500 Northside Circle, NW Suite D7
Atlanta, GA 30309-2100
Ph: 404-350-0107
Fx: 404-351-3638
Email: Cheryl Krupczak, cheryl@empiretech.com
MIB Manager(tm) X/Windows NMS tool, Agents for UNIX
Systems Management and Host Resources MIB, and base
SNMP agent source code.
h. FTP Software
Contact Sales at
(800) 282-4387,
EMail to info@ftp.com
Web server at http://www.ftp.com.
PC/SNMP Tools is a basic, inexpensive Network Management
Station software package for DOS PCs. You can build custom
applications over PC/SNMP Tools using the the SNMP libraries
in the PC/TCP / OnNet Development Kit.
i. DMH Software (contact Yigal Hochberg)
e-mail: 72144.3704@compuserve.com
10 Village Lane #6 Tyngsboro, MA 01879
"1. Advanced portable SNMP Agent engine designed for
any "hosting-system", with MIB compiler. Highly portable
UDP/IP stack, TCP, TELNET, TFTP, BOOTP, RARP.
2. A CMU based SNMP Agent portable engine changed and redesigned
for any "hosting-system". Based on the popular core of the known
CMU SNMP Agent, includes many improvements. Inexpensive
solution.
3. DOS based SNMP Manager for SNMP developers. In addition to SNMP
also includes ping, udp-echo and cookie client. Available as a
executables or developer tool-kit."
j. Castle Rock Computing
20863 Stevens Creek Blvd
Cupertino, CA 95014
408-366-6540 or 1-800-331-SNMP
SNMPc is a full-featured SNMP Manager for Windows 3.1
k. The SNMP WorkShop
P.O. Box 3949
Danbury, CT 06813-3949
Voice: 800-731-SNMP [7667]
or: 203-746-0753
Fax: 610-992-1909
Email: snmpshop@ix.netcom.com
"SNMP Edge is an add-on set of utilities for
use with SNMPc, NETMON for Windows, Sun Net Manager,
HP OpenView or IBM Netview 6000.
The WorkShop also sells SNMP products via a direct
channel. Call, Email or write for a catalog."
C. General:
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[NOTE: ALSO SEE BRUCE'S HUGH FTP LIST IN PART 1.]
Bruce Barnett writes:
>Here is my list of authoritative sites for SNMP source code....
>In particular, the MIB II version of CMU's code is available on
ftp://ftp.near.net:/pub/cmu-snmp1.2u.tar.Z
>and
ftp://munnari.OZ.AU:pub/cmu-mu-snmp1.5.tar.Z
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SNMP Archives summary. Maintained by Bruce Barnett
The following are FTP sites for various packages...
lancaster.andrew.cmu.edu:/pub/snmp-dist/*
snmp2.1.2.tar
CMU SNMP v2 source (Library, agent, mid-level agent,
Tcl/Tk interface, net management routines)
> ***** IMPORTANT *****
> This server is now known as FTP.NET.CMU.EDU. Please connect to that
> hostname. In the near future, the anonymous server will no longer be
> associated with LANCASTER.ANDREW.CMU.EDU so connections there will not
> work.
ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu:mrose/isode-snmpV2/isode-snmpV2.tar.Z
4BSD/ISODE 8.0 SNMPv2 package
ftp://dnpap.et.tudelft.nl:/pub/btng
Contains:
RMON agent for OS/2, SunOS 4.1.X, & Ultrix 4.1
Tricklet (Perl-based SNMP tool for Unix or OS/2)
ftp://nic.nikhef.nl:~ftp/pub/monet/monet-0.10.tar.Z
Xmonet network monitoring tools
ftp://ftp.synoptics.com:/eng/mibcompiler/src.tar.Z
SMIC - MIB Compiler
ftp://ftp.synoptics.com:/eng/mibcompiler/mibs.tar.Z -
Public MIBS
ftp://munnari.OZ.AU:pub/cmu-mu-snmp1.5.tar.Z
MIB-II enhancements to CMU's SNMPv1 AP
ftp://ftp.cs.ubc.ca:/pub/local/src/snacc
SNACC - MIB compiler with MIB-II Macros and C, C++ BER
routines.
ftp://venera.isi.edu:/ftp/mib various
Public MIBS
ftp://ftp.cisco.com:
MIBS for CISCO routers
ftp://ftp.near.net:/pub/cmu-snmp1.2u.tar.Z -
Version 1.2(Unofficial) CMU SNMP code. MIB-II support
ftp://zippy.telcom.arizona.edu:/pub/snm/agents/*
Schema and oid for SunNet Manager
ftp://ptt.lcs.mit.edu:/pub/snmp
- MIT SNMP code - MIB-II
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com:/private/mib
- Source of MIBs for DEC products.
ftp://nexus.yorku.ca:~/pub/tcl_snmp
Tcl/Tk interface to SNMP
ftp://ctron.com:/pub/management/mibs
- Cabletron MIBS
loki.oar.net:/pub/xnetdb - Xnetdb "A network database and monitoring
tool" by henryc@oar.net
X-based network monitoring system with an integrated database
which uses SNMP and PING to graphically display the state of
the network.
ftp://ftp.jvnc.net:jvncnet-packages/nocol/NOCOL
- Network Operations Center
OnLine
From: aggarwal@nisc.jvnc.net (Vikas Aggarwal)
NOCOL (NOC-On Line) is a network monitoring package for TCP/IP
networks. Has monitors for reachability, SNMP traps,
nameserver, thruput. Uses curses display, runs on Unix. Future
enhancements intended for SNMP variables, etc.
ftp://aarnet.edu.au:/pub/gwtraffic
AARNet Traffic Monitoring
This document describes the implementation of the
'new' AARNet traffic monitoring application. The application
is composed of several (sh) shell script programs, together
with an SNMP application (GWTRAFFIC) and an interactive
plotting program (GNUPLOT).
Re: perl & SNMP
There are two solutions: one requires patches to perl,
the other (Tricklet, see above) uses an external program.
Contact gmstreet@guy.b30.ingr.com for information on his
extension/patches to perl for SNMP. It might be available via
FTP on
liasun3.epfl.ch:/pub/net/snmp/snmpperl*
Re: "The Internet Rover" contact wbn@merit.edu
-----------------------Paul Boot writes:
I have a small contribution to the FAQ concerning SNMP FTP sites.
For the European users this site will be usefull:
src.doc.ic.ac.uk
dir: computing/comms/tcpip/snmp
This dir contains Tricklet, xsnmp, xnetdb and others.
Tom notes...
Public domain network management tools (not necessarily SNMP)
are available via anonymous FTP from cs.curtin.edu.au. Look
in the /pub/netman directory. The tools are:
etherman - displays ethernet traffic by volume
geotraceman - displays a geographic version of traceroute
@2.
~Subject: What CMIP software is available?
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A. Public Domain Software is available from University College
London, UK as follows:
[NOTE: ALSO SEE BRUCE BARNETT'S FTP LIST IN PART 1.]
Graham Knight writes:
>HOW TO GET A COPY
>OSIMIS is not a supported package and no guarantees are offered about
>its operation. You may use it and adapt it to your own use but this
is entirely at your own risk. We may be able
>to help with any problems you have but we can offer no guarantees -
>there is very little effort to spare for this at UCL.
>1. Internet
> If you can FTP to the Internet, you can use anonymous FTP to
> cs.ucl.ac.uk [128.16.5.31] and retrieve the files
> osimis/osimis-3.tar.Z (a 2.2 Mb compressed tar image),
> osimis/osimis-manual-1.ps.Z (0.4 Mb of compressed postrcript).
> If you do not have InterViews-2.6, you may also retrieve the files
> osimis/InterViews-2.6.tar.Z (a 3.4 Mb compressed tar image) and
> osimis/InterViews.README (a text file).
>2. FTAM on the IPSS, JANET or IXI
> If you can use FTAM over X.25, you can use anonymous FTAM to the
> host 23421920030013 through IPSS, 00000511160013 through JANET
> or 20433450420113 through IXI with TSEL 259 (acsii encoding).
> You should log in as "anon" and retrieve the files
> osimis/osimis-3.tar.Z (a 2.2 Mb compressed tar image) and
> osimis/osimis-manual-1.ps.Z (0.4 Mb of compressed postrcript).
> If you do not have InterViews-2.6, you may also retrieve the files
> osimis/InterViews-2.6.tar.Z (a 3.4 Mb compressed tar image) and
> osimis/InterViews.README (a text file).
> For information only:
> Telephone: +44-71-380-7215 (George Pavlou)
> +44-71-380-7366 (Graham Knight)
> Fax: +44-71-387-1397
> Telex: 28722
> Internet:
@III. MIBS
@1.
~Subject: What is a MIB?
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A collection of objects which describe an SNMP managable entity.
An Important Note: There IS ONLY ONE SNMP MIB. All these other
"MIBs" which are cited herein are extensions to *the* SNMP MIB.
Popular usage and strict definition do not agree on this point, so
be careful in how and when you talk about the plural of MIB.
@2.
~Subject: What are MIB-I and MIB-II
-----------------------------
MIB-I was the first SNMP MIB accepted as standard.
MIB-II added some much-needed objects, and has become
the standard SNMP MIB.
Note that SNMPv2 expands upon MIB-II with new groups
and objects, and is therefore not MIB-II but includes
MIB-II.
Dave Jagoda (dj@netlabs.com) writes to provide ...
" ... some useful RFC's that I think might be of general
interest (particularly since I think many people don't realize these
exist and might try to invent something like these on their own).
They all have in common the fact that they are assigned under the
mib-2 portion of the tree."
RFC1158, RFC1213, RFC1215: mib-2 ( 1 - 11 ) mib-2
-------------------------------------------
In the case of MIB-2 (12), brock@cs.unca.edu writes:
In RFC 1229, Extension to the Generica-Interface MIB, the
objects in ifExtensions, experimental (6), are defined.
In RFC 1239, some experimental MIBs are reassigned to standard MIBs.
At that time, the Generic IF objects are reassigned to mib-2 (12).
However, RFC 1573 officially "obsoletes" RFC 1229, by defining
a new class objects, in mib(30) and mib(31) that replace the
the ones of RFC 1229.
Also, there seems to be a new RFC -- RFC 1657 -- for mib-2 (15), BGP.
-------------------------------------------
RFC1243: mib-2 ( 13 ) appletalk
RFC1253: mib-2 ( 14 ) ospf
RFC1269: mib-2 ( 15 ) bgp (obsolete?)
RFC1657: mib-2 ( 15 ) BGP (current?)
RFC1271: mib-2 ( 16 ) rmon
RFC1286: mib-2 ( 17 ) dot1dBridge
RFC1289: mib-2 ( 18 ) phiv
RFC1316: mib-2 ( 19 ) char
RFC1353: mib-2 ( 20 - 21) snmpParties, snmpSecrets
RFC1368: mib-2 ( 22 ) snmpDot3RptrMgt
RFC1389: mib-2 ( 23 ) rip2
RFC1414: mib-2 ( 24 ) ident
RFC1514: mib-2 ( 25 ) host
RFC1515: mib-2 ( 26 ) 802.3 MAUs
RFC1565: mib-2 ( 27 ) network services
RFC1566: mib-2 ( 28 ) mail
RFC1567: mib-2 ( 29 ) X.500 directory
RFC1573: mib-2 ( 30 ) "IANA ifType"
RFC1573: mib-2 ( 31 ) "Interfaces Group"
RFC1611: mib-2 ( 32 ) DNS server
RFC1628: mib-2 ( 33 ) UPS
RFC1666: mib-2 ( 34 ) SNA NAUs
For info on an effort to develop a WWW server MIB, see
http://www.onramp.net/~cwk/http-mib
@3.
~Subject: What are enterprise MIBs? [MIB segments?]
----------------------------------
An enterprise MIB is a MIB created by an enterprise [company, etc]
to define a set of objects that are related to some product[s] from
this enterprise, and that the enterprise agrees to make public so
that network managers can use the MIB to manage some products from
this enterprise.
Here are some enterprises that have their own enterprise MIB :
Proteon, IBM, CMU, ACC...
- Paul Rolland
[Note: There are now hundreds of enterprise MIB numbers assigned.]
@4.
~Subject: Where can I get enterprise MIBs? [MIB segments?]
------------------------------------
A. Try anonymous ftp to venera.isi.edu in mib/
also:
"If you're looking for a
specific manufacturer's MIB, try their sites first:
ftp.ctron.com - Cabletron
ftp.cisco.com - Cisco
ftp.xyplex.com - Xyplex"
Almon (Al) Sorrell, Telecom Engineer
Internet: Sorrell@netops.bwi.wec.com
B. For now: see Section II, topic 1, part C for more FTP sites.
C. The companies which sell networking gear usually have a
Web site or FTP site from which you can obtain their
MIB segments.
@5.
~Subject: How can I register an enterprise MIB?
------------------------------------------
Mark Wallace writes:
- A.5 (page 265) in "The Simple Book" shows how to apply.
- You can email to IANA-MIB@isi.edu.
- You can just call IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority).
The number is 310-822-1511 x239.
You'll be asked a few questions and be given you your number.
This is faster than e-mail. Please supply:
Company Name, Address, Voice Phone, Name of Contact,
Contact's Address, Voice Phone, FAX Phone, Email.
- You can snail mail:
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
USC/Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
--
Mark Wallace
Harris Corporation, Electronic Systems, Melbourne, Florida, USA
mwallace@sur3ax.ess.harris.com
If you utilize GNU Emacs, a profile is available which makes
Emacs set up specifically for ASN.1 editing.
Contact David C. Brower via dbrower@us.oracle.com.
@5a.
~Subject: Where can I find the current Enterprise Number Assignments?
-----------------
OFFICIAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE NUMBERS
SMI Network Management Private Enterprise Codes:
Prefix: iso.org.dod.internet.private.enterprise (1.3.6.1.4.1)
This file is
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/enterprise-numbers
@6.
~Subject: What is the SMI?
-------------------
"In order for the MIB to serve the needs of a network-management
system, it must meet two objectives:
1. The object or objects used to represent a particular resource
must be the same at each node. [...]
2. A common scheme for representation must be used to support
interoperability." - William Stallings, op. cit. below
In both Internet and OSI network management these two objectives
are met by a common structure of managment information (SMI)
which is defined in RFC 1155. The SMI is the specification
for the tree of MIB objects which which provides a means of
associating a common numerical identification code for a
given object.
The top of the SMI tree is the familiar mapping:
iso = 1
org = 3
dod = 6
internet = 1
mgmt = 2
mib-2 = 1
which is the global root prefix of every SNMP MIB object.
For more details, read:
I4B. SNMP, SNMPv2 and CMIP: The Practical Guide to
Network Management Standards
by: William Stallings
@7.
~Subject: What is ASN.1?
-------------------
ASN.1 : This is an Abstract Syntax Notation One. ASN.1 is an language
used to define the formats of the PDUs that are exchanged by SNMP
entities, and also used to defined the objects that are managed thru
SNMP. This is a formal language, with a grammar that has been defined
in :
Information Processing
Open System Interconnection
Specification of
Abstract Syntax Notation ONE (ASN.1).
International Organization for Standardization
(ISO) and International Electrotechnical Committee,
1987. International Standard 8824.
In ASN.1, you can define Modules, which are collections of ASN.1
descriptions, each description referring to an object. Possible
objects are types, values and macros. Types can be both simple or
constructed, constructed types being based on one or more simple
types. Simple types are : Integer, Octet String, Object Identifier,
NULL.
- Paul Rolland
ASN.1 is well defined and explained in three of the books mentioned in
this FAQ:
From Philipp Hoschka:
"I've assembled a number of ASN.1-related internet resources
and included them in my homepage."
The mosaic URL is:
ftp://zenon.inria.fr/rodeo/hoschka/hoschka.html
and look in "ASN.1 Resources".
"Additions are welcome, but only in the form of working
html references, please."
I4F. Open Systems Networking: OSI & TCP/IP
by: David Piscitello & A. L. Chapin
I4B. SNMP, SNMPv2 and CMIP: The Practical Guide to
Network Management Standards
by: William Stallings
I41A. The Open Book: A Practical Perspective on OSI
by: Marshall T. Rose
ALSO:::::
>>ASN.1 is also defined in ITU (formerly CCITT) recommendation X.208.
>>X.208 is electroniccaly available from itu document store:
>>This is zip'ed postscript file of english version.
>>Taavi Talvik
[ Below is a revised address sent to Dave Waddell by Bob Shaw ]
"Here's a new URL. We're in the midst of a software upgrade here so
there may be service interruptions. These are in ZIPPED Postscript
format.
[X.208] Recommendation X.208 - Specification of Abstract Syntax
Notation One (ASN.1)
//info.itu.ch:70/11/.1/itudoc/public/gophertree/.1/.itu-t/.rec/.x/.2287
You might also be interested in:
[X.209] Recommendation X.209 - Specification of basic encoding rules
for Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1)
//info.itu.ch:70/11/.1/itudoc/public/gophertree/.1/.itu-t/.rec/.x/.2477
Go a couple of levels up to see other Recommendations."
@A
~Subject: Appendix A. Glossary
--------------------
TBS - A Big TV Station in Atlanta, Ga (Ha!)
@B
~Subject: Appendix B. Acknowledgements & Credits
---------------------------------------
Some folks have sent in contributions, while
others have contributed unwittingly by the
nature of their posts.
[Note: Since this list was begun on Day One of
this FAQ, some addresses may be out of date.]
The assistance of each of the following folks
in the creation of this document is hereby
gratefully acknowledged:
--- o0o ---
Robert Babb (babbr@roadrunner.pictel.com)
Bruce Barnett
David Battle
Judy Bettinger (judy@evolving.com)
Paul W. Boot (boot@einstein.et.tudelft.nl)
J. Dean Brock (brock@cs.unca.edu)
Huei-Ping Chen (hpchen@eng.adaptec.com)
Tom Cikoski (splinter@panix.com)
Jeffrey S. Curtis (curtis@anl.gov)
Robin Cutshaw (robin@paros.com)
Arnold de Leon (arnold@synopsys.com)
George Dolbier (georged@sequent.com)
Jeff Drew (drew@mtung.att.com)
Michael A. Erlinger (erlinger@aero.org)
Moritz Farbstein (moritz@il.us.swissbank.com)
Sidnie Feit
Rabbe Fogelholm
Jude A. George (heyjude@netcom.com)
Richard L. Gralnik (rlg@patuxent.desktalk.com)
Wes Hardaker (hardaker@ece.ucdavis.edu)
Eric van Hengstum (hengstum@cs.utwente.nl)
Philipp Hoschka (hoschka@zenon.inria.fr)
Hsing-Kuo Hua (hkhua@newton.ee.ucla.edu)
Dave Jagoda (dj@netlabs.com)
Earl Jones (earl%sch.com)
Russell Jones (rcjones@na.SJF.Novell.COM)
Jan-Arendt Klingel (klingel@fuldasrv.rhoen.de)
Graham Knight (G.Knight@cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Cheryl Krupczak (cheryl@empiretech.com)
Simon Leinen (simon@lia.di.epfl.ch)
Allan Leinwand
Christophe Meessen (meessen@marina.in2p3.fr)
David Partain (partain@europe.snmp.com)
Dave Perkins (dperkins@synoptics.com)
David Pascoe (davidp@qpsx.oz.au)
Aleksey Y Romanov (ralex@world.std.com)
Paul Rolland (rol@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr)
Richard Schneider (rschneid@erc.epson.com)
Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de)
Frances K. Selkirk (fks@ftp.com)
Christian Seyb (cs@gold.muc.de)
Robert Slade (ROBERTS@decus.ca)
Almon (Al) Sorrell (Sorrell@netops.bwi.wec.comr)
Bill Stallings (ws@shore.net)
Judi Theg Talley
Taavi Talvik
Tyler Vallillee
Ruediger Volk (rv@deins.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE)
Dave Waddell (waddell@posc.org)
Les Walker
Mark Wallace (mwallace@sur3ax.ess.harris.com)
Andreas Weder (awe@zurich.ibm.com)
Phil Wentworth (phil@uunet.UU.NET)
Pete Wilson (pwilson@world.std.com)
John Winfield (john@mute.demon.co.uk)
Bruce Wollen (bruce@nds.com)
Ralph C Wolman
Richard Wood
PS: Some of the above EMail addresses will bounce.
Sorry.
--- o0o ---
~Subject: A Special, Personal Thanks
--------------------------
My meager, threadbare knowledge of SNMP and SNMPv2 would be
all the more so except for the patient attention of
Jeff Case and Steve Waldbusser. These two fellows are
not only masters of their craft, they are also true
gentlemen in every sense of the word. My gratitude.
- Tom Cikoski
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