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CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_



Reported by Steven Waldbusser/CMU

Minutes of the Host Resources MIB BOF (HOSTMIB)

Review of Charter

The Charter was presented and briefly reviewed.  The Charter's
aggressive schedule for completion was also noted.  A concern was voiced
that the Charter was too narrow, but there was general agreement that
due to the desire to move quickly, a short, focused effort needed to be
made.

MIB Archive

An archive of vendor mibs for host management has been created and 10
vendors have placed mibs there.  In addition, a proposal for the Host
MIB was created by Pete Grillo and Steve Waldbusser and was placed in
the archive.

The archived MIBs are available for anonymous FTP from
lancaster.andrew.cmu.edu in the directory pub/hostmib.  Currently the
following MIBs may be found there:



        apple           unix-Krupczak      unix-cmu        unix-sony
        hostmib.txt     unix-Rose-Davison  unix-dec        unix-sun
        pc-att          unix-bsd-2         unix-hp



Any other MIBs for host management should be sent via email to
[e-mail] so that they may be made available in the archive.

Several of the attendees mentioned that they had other MIBs to send to
the archive.  In addition, somebody mentioned that MIT Project Athena
has a MIB that should be included.

Host Resource MIB Proposal

Pete Grillo and Steven Waldbusser made a presentation of the MIB that
they created and were submitting to the Working Group us a starting
point for the Group's efforts.  The MIB was explained table by table and
a demonstration was given that the MIB objects defined were in fact
platform independent, using Unix, PCs and Macintosh systems as examples.

After the presentation, there were many questions asked about the MIB.
Several bugs was found and many helpful suggestions were noted.

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One area that got a lot of attention was the software group which
instruments the installed software and the running software on a host.
An opinion was raised that this installed software table was hard to
implement given the potentially large number of pieces of software
installed on a system.  A couple of implementation strategies were
suggested, and at least one participant expressed plans to implement the
table and report back on the feasibility.  A concern was also raised
that this table might not represent software packages well, but there
wasn't a generally accepted principle of what a software package would
look like or when it would be a general enough mechanism for a standard
MIB.

Future Plans

There was general agreement that the proposed MIB should be used as a
baseline for future work by the Working Group.  The comments received
should be incorporated into another draft which would be submitted as an
Internet Draft.

The Working Group agreed with the aggressive schedule and that the Group
should next meet in September at a date and time to be announced later.

Attendees

David Arneson            [e-mail]
John Ballard             [e-mail]
Jonathan Biggar          [e-mail]
Steve Bostock            [e-mail]
Lida Carrier             [e-mail]
Tom Coppeto              [e-mail]
Cathy Cunningham         [e-mail]
James Davin              [e-mail]
Michael Davison          [e-mail]
Raymond Edgerton         bellmf![e-mail]
David Engel              [e-mail]
Michael Erlinger         [e-mail]
Bill Fardy               [e-mail]
Rob Graham               [e-mail]
Pete Grillo              [e-mail]
James Halpin             [e-mail]
Fred Henry               [e-mail]
Ronald Jacoby            [e-mail]
Mark Kepke               [e-mail]
Kenneth Key              [e-mail]
Cheryl Krupczak          [e-mail]
Arun Mahajan             [e-mail]
Kim Mayton               [e-mail]
Mike Migliano            bellmf![e-mail]
David Minnich            [e-mail]
Greg Minshall            [e-mail]
Rohit Mital              [e-mail]
Lynn Monsanto            [e-mail]


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Paul Moran               [e-mail]
Patrick Mullaney         [e-mail]
Muki Murthy              [e-mail]
Rina Nathaniel           rina!rnd![e-mail]
Tom Nisbet               [e-mail]
Bill Norton              [e-mail]
Steven Onishi            [e-mail]
Bob Page                 [e-mail]
John Payne               [e-mail]
David Perkins            [e-mail]
Ed Reeder                [e-mail]
Bradley Rhoades          [e-mail]
Mike Ritter              [e-mail]
Kary Robertson           [e-mail]
Dan Romascanu            [e-mail]
Marshall Rose            [e-mail]
Simon Rosenthal          [e-mail]
Jon Saperia              [e-mail]
Koichiro Seto            [e-mail]
Timon Sloane             peernet![e-mail]
Einar Stefferud          [e-mail]
Thomas Talpey            [e-mail]
Rodney Thayer            [e-mail]
Mark Therieau            [e-mail]
Chris Thomas             [e-mail]
Dean Throop              [e-mail]
Panos-Gavriil Tsigaridas [e-mail]
Stephen Tsun             [e-mail]
David Waitzman           [e-mail]
Steven Waldbusser        [e-mail]
Kathleen Walsh           [e-mail]
Steven Wong              [e-mail]
Honda Wu                 natadm![e-mail]
Kiho Yum                 [e-mail]
Joseph Zur               [e-mail]



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