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SNMP Agent Extensibility (agentx)
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Charter
Last Modified: 11-Feb-97
Current Status: Active Working Group
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
To Subscribe: agentx-request@fv.com
In Body: Subject: subscribe
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 intial 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:
Posted Revised I-D Title <Filename>
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Jun 96 Jun 97 <draft-ietf-agentx-ext-pro-04.txt>
Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol Version 1
May 97 New <draft-ietf-agentx-mib-00.txt>
Definitions of Managed Objects for Extensible SNMP Agents
Request For Comments:
None to date.