2.4.17 SNMP Agent Extensibility (agentx) *

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NOTE: This charter is a snapshot of the 40th IETF Meeting in Washington, DC. It may now be out-of-date. Last Modified: 11-Feb-97

Chair(s):

Bob Natale <natale@acec.com>

Operations and Management Area Director(s):

John Curran <jcurran@bbn.com>
Michael O'Dell <mo@uu.net>

Operations and Management Area Advisor:

John Curran <jcurran@bbn.com>

Mailing Lists:

General Discussion:agentx@fv.com
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Archive: ftp://ftp.fv.com/pub/agentx/

Description of Working Group:

Note: Dale Francisco of Stratacom <dfrancisco@strata.com is the WG editor.

The goal of this working group is to define standards-track technology for SNMP Agent extensibility. The resulting technology specification will allow independently developed sub-agents to communicate with a master-agent running on an Internet device.

The technology specification will consist of:

o (mandatory) a platform-independent protocol which supports intra-agent communication within a device or local area network;

o (optional) a MIB module, which, when implemented by a master-agent, allows an SNMP-based management application to monitor and control the intra-agent communication service; and,

o (optional) a programmatic interface to the services offered by that protocol.

The working group is explicitly directed to develop a solution which is adequate to achieve transparency with respect to whether a SNMP request is processed by a master-agent and/or one or more sub-agents; simultaneously, the working group is further directed to use good engineering judgement is developing an approach with the smallest reasonable "footprint" to achieve intra-agent communication. As a consequence, if the working group may choose to avoid complete transparency, if, at its discretion, this proves too costly. In this case, the working group should document its decision for this engineering trade-off.

Although the working group will solicit existing specifications and experience in this area, it will produce a vendor-neutral technology specification.

Goals and Milestones:

Done

  

First meeting at Dallas IETF.

Done

  

Meet at LA IETF.

Apr 96

  

Post first Internet-Draft(s) for SNMP Agent Extensibility.

May 96

  

Post revised Internet-Draft(s) on SNMP Agent Extensibility.

Jun 96

  

Post final Internet-Drafts of AgentX protocol.

Jul 96

  

Submit initial Agentx MIB and API as Internet-Drafts.

Sep 96

  

Submit revised versions of Agentx MIB and API Internet-Drafts.

Oct 96

  

Collecting and evaluate implementation reports.

Nov 96

  

Conduct Agentx interoperability testing.

Dec 96

  

Submit final versions of AgentX MIB and API Internet-Drafts.

Dec 96

  

Submit final set of Internet-Drafts on SNMP Agent Extensibility to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard.

Internet-Drafts:

No Request For Comments

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