Operational Statistics (opstat) Charter


NOTE: This charter is accurate as of the 33rd IETF Meeting in Stockholm. It may now be out-of-date. (Consider this a "snapshot" of the working group from that meeting.) Up-to-date charters for all active working groups can be found elsewhere in this Web server.

Chair(s)

Operational Requirements Area Director(s):

Mailing List Information

Description of Working Group

Today there exists a variety of network management tools for the collection and presentation of network statistical data. Different kinds of measurements and presentation techniques make it hard to compare data between networks. There exists a need to compare these statistical data on a uniform basis to facilitate cooperative management, ease problem isolation and network planning.

The working group will try to define a model for network statistics, a minimal set of common metrics, tools for gathering statistical data, a common statistical database storage format and common presentation formats. Collecting tools will store data in a given format later to be retrieved by presentation tools displaying the data in a predefined way.

Goals and Milestones

Done
Agreement on a model.
Done
Survey for most useful and popular metrics.
Done
Survey for most useful and popular presentation formats.
Done
Identify similar efforts being performed by other groups.
Done
Define a common minimal set of metrics.
Done
Propose a MIB for metrics not already there.
Done
Define a common storage format to facilitate data sharing.
Done
Define common presentation formats to make data comparable.
Done
Develop outline, and make writing assignments for paper (Opstat1) documenting March 1991 milestones.
Done
Complete paper Opstat1.
Done
Possible mid-term meeting to review Opstat1.
Done
Submit Opstat1 as Internet-Draft.
Done
Approve paper Opstat1 for submission as RFC; decide standards-track or Informational?
Done
Define a new collection of tools based on defined metrics, defined storage formats and defined presentation formats.
Done
Propose old tools to be retrofitted.
Done
Develop outline and make writing assignments for paper (Opstat2) on new tools and retrofitted tools.
Done
Submit Internet-Draft of new and retrofitted tools.
Done
Submit new and old tools Internet-Draft to IESG as an Informational RFC.
Done
Post an Internet-Draft defining the client/Server Opstat protcool.
Mar 93
Post the Opstat Statistical MIB as an Internet-Draft.
Jul 93
Submit the Client/Server Opstat Protocol to the IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard.
Jul 93
Submit the Statistical Opstat MIB to the IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard.

Current Internet-Drafts

Request for Comments