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- Network Working Group F. Baker
- Request for Comments: 2214 Cisco Systems
- Category: Standards Track J. Krawczyk
- ArrowPoint Communications
- A. Sastry
- Cisco Systems
- September 1997
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- Integrated Services Management Information Base
- Guaranteed Service Extensions using SMIv2
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- Status of this Memo
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- This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
- Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
- improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
- Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
- and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
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- Abstract
-
- This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB)
- for use with network management protocols in TCP/IP-based internets.
- In particular, it defines objects for managing the the interface
- attributes defined in the Guaranteed Service of the Integrated
- Services Model. Comments should be made to the Integrated Services
- Working Group, intserv@isi.edu.
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- Table of Contents
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- 1 The SNMPv2 Network Management Framework ............... 2
- 1.1 Object Definitions .................................. 2
- 2 Overview .............................................. 2
- 2.1 Textual Conventions ................................. 2
- 3 Definitions ........................................... 3
- 3.1 Interface Attributes Database ....................... 3
- 3.2 Notifications ....................................... 6
- 4 Security Considerations ............................... 7
- 5 Authors' Addresses .................................... 8
- 6 Acknowledgements ...................................... 8
- 7 References ............................................ 8
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- 1. The SNMPv2 Network Management Framework
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- The SNMPv2 Network Management Framework consists of four major
- components. They are:
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- o RFC 1441 which defines the SMI, the mechanisms used for
- describing and naming objects for the purpose of
- management.
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- o STD 17, RFC 1213 defines MIB-II, the core set of managed objects
- for the Internet suite of protocols.
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- o RFC 1445 which defines the administrative and other
- architectural aspects of the framework.
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- o RFC 1448 which defines the protocol used for network
- access to managed objects.
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- The Framework permits new objects to be defined for the purpose of
- experimentation and evaluation.
-
- 1.1. Object Definitions
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- Managed objects are accessed via a virtual information store, termed
- the Management Information Base or MIB. Objects in the MIB are
- defined using the subset of Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1)
- defined in the SMI. In particular, each object type is named by an
- OBJECT IDENTIFIER, an administratively assigned name. The object
- type together with an object instance serves to uniquely identify a
- specific instantiation of the object. For human convenience, we
- often use a textual string, termed the descriptor, to refer to the
- object type.
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- 2. Overview
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- 2.1. Textual Conventions
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- Several new data types are introduced as a textual convention in this
- MIB document. These textual conventions enhance the readability of
- the specification and can ease comparison with other specifications
- if appropriate. It should be noted that the introduction of the
- these textual conventions has no effect on either the syntax nor the
- semantics of any managed objects. The use of these is merely an
- artifact of the explanatory method used. Objects defined in terms of
- one of these methods are always encoded by means of the rules that
- define the primitive type. Hence, no changes to the SMI or the SNMP
- are necessary to accommodate these textual conventions which are
- adopted merely for the convenience of readers and writers in pursuit
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- of the elusive goal of clear, concise, and unambiguous MIB documents.
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- 3. Definitions
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- INTEGRATED-SERVICES-GUARANTEED-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN
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- IMPORTS
- MODULE-IDENTITY, OBJECT-TYPE FROM SNMPv2-SMI
- RowStatus FROM SNMPv2-TC
- MODULE-COMPLIANCE, OBJECT-GROUP FROM SNMPv2-CONF
- intSrv FROM INTEGRATED-SERVICES-MIB
- ifIndex FROM IF-MIB;
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- -- This MIB module uses the extended OBJECT-TYPE macro as
- -- defined in [9].
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- intSrvGuaranteed MODULE-IDENTITY
- LAST-UPDATED "9511030500Z" -- Thu Aug 28 09:04:22 PDT 1997
- ORGANIZATION "IETF Integrated Services Working Group"
- CONTACT-INFO
- " Fred Baker
- Postal: Cisco Systems
- 519 Lado Drive
- Santa Barbara, California 93111
- Tel: +1 805 681 0115
- E-Mail: fred@cisco.com"
- DESCRIPTION
- "The MIB module to describe the Guaranteed Service of
- the Integrated Services Protocol"
- ::= { intSrv 5 }
-
- intSrvGuaranteedObjects OBJECT IDENTIFIER
- ::= { intSrvGuaranteed 1 }
- intSrvGuaranteedNotifications OBJECT IDENTIFIER
- ::= { intSrvGuaranteed 2 }
- intSrvGuaranteedConformance OBJECT IDENTIFIER
- ::= { intSrvGuaranteed 3 }
-
-
- -- The Integrated Services Interface Attributes Database
- -- contains information that is shared with other reservation
- -- procedures such as ST-II.
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- intSrvGuaranteedIfTable OBJECT-TYPE
- SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF IntSrvGuaranteedIfEntry
- MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
- STATUS current
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- DESCRIPTION
- "The attributes of the system's interfaces ex-
- ported by the Guaranteed Service."
- ::= { intSrvGuaranteedObjects 1 }
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- intSrvGuaranteedIfEntry OBJECT-TYPE
- SYNTAX IntSrvGuaranteedIfEntry
- MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
- STATUS current
- DESCRIPTION
- "The reservable attributes of a given inter-
- face."
- INDEX { ifIndex }
- ::= { intSrvGuaranteedIfTable 1 }
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- IntSrvGuaranteedIfEntry ::=
- SEQUENCE {
- intSrvGuaranteedIfBacklog INTEGER,
- intSrvGuaranteedIfDelay INTEGER,
- intSrvGuaranteedIfSlack INTEGER,
- intSrvGuaranteedIfStatus RowStatus
- }
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- intSrvGuaranteedIfBacklog OBJECT-TYPE
- SYNTAX INTEGER (0..'0FFFFFFF'h)
- UNITS "bytes"
- MAX-ACCESS read-create
- STATUS current
- DESCRIPTION
- "The Backlog parameter is the data backlog
- resulting from the vagaries of how a specific
- implementation deviates from a strict bit-by-
- bit service. So, for instance, for packetized
- weighted fair queueing, Backlog is set to the
- Maximum Packet Size.
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- The Backlog term is measured in units of bytes.
- An individual element can advertise a Backlog
- value between 1 and 2**28 (a little over 250
- megabytes) and the total added over all ele-
- ments can range as high as (2**32)-1. Should
- the sum of the different elements delay exceed
- (2**32)-1, the end-to-end error term should be
- (2**32)-1."
- ::= { intSrvGuaranteedIfEntry 1 }
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- intSrvGuaranteedIfDelay OBJECT-TYPE
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- SYNTAX INTEGER (0..'0FFFFFFF'h)
- UNITS "microseconds"
- MAX-ACCESS read-create
- STATUS current
- DESCRIPTION
- "The Delay parameter at each service element
- should be set to the maximum packet transfer
- delay (independent of bucket size) through the
- service element. For instance, in a simple
- router, one might compute the worst case amount
- of time it make take for a datagram to get
- through the input interface to the processor,
- and how long it would take to get from the pro-
- cessor to the outbound interface (assuming the
- queueing schemes work correctly). For an Eth-
- ernet, it might represent the worst case delay
- if the maximum number of collisions is experi-
- enced.
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- The Delay term is measured in units of one mi-
- crosecond. An individual element can advertise
- a delay value between 1 and 2**28 (somewhat
- over two minutes) and the total delay added all
- elements can range as high as (2**32)-1.
- Should the sum of the different elements delay
- exceed (2**32)-1, the end-to-end delay should
- be (2**32)-1."
- ::= { intSrvGuaranteedIfEntry 2 }
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- intSrvGuaranteedIfSlack OBJECT-TYPE
- SYNTAX INTEGER (0..'0FFFFFFF'h)
- MAX-ACCESS read-create
- STATUS current
- DESCRIPTION
- "If a network element uses a certain amount of
- slack, Si, to reduce the amount of resources
- that it has reserved for a particular flow, i,
- the value Si should be stored at the network
- element. Subsequently, if reservation re-
- freshes are received for flow i, the network
- element must use the same slack Si without any
- further computation. This guarantees consisten-
- cy in the reservation process.
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- As an example for the use of the slack term,
- consider the case where the required end-to-end
- delay, Dreq, is larger than the maximum delay
- of the fluid flow system. In this, Ctot is the
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- sum of the Backlog terms end to end, and Dtot
- is the sum of the delay terms end to end. Dreq
- is obtained by setting R=r in the fluid delay
- formula, and is given by
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- b/r + Ctot/r + Dtot.
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- In this case the slack term is
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- S = Dreq - (b/r + Ctot/r + Dtot).
-
- The slack term may be used by the network ele-
- ments to adjust their local reservations, so
- that they can admit flows that would otherwise
- have been rejected. A service element at an in-
- termediate network element that can internally
- differentiate between delay and rate guarantees
- can now take advantage of this information to
- lower the amount of resources allocated to this
- flow. For example, by taking an amount of slack
- s <= S, an RCSD scheduler [5] can increase the
- local delay bound, d, assigned to the flow, to
- d+s. Given an RSpec, (Rin, Sin), it would do so
- by setting Rout = Rin and Sout = Sin - s.
-
- Similarly, a network element using a WFQ
- scheduler can decrease its local reservation
- from Rin to Rout by using some of the slack in
- the RSpec. This can be accomplished by using
- the transformation rules given in the previous
- section, that ensure that the reduced reserva-
- tion level will not increase the overall end-
- to-end delay."
- ::= { intSrvGuaranteedIfEntry 3 }
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- intSrvGuaranteedIfStatus OBJECT-TYPE
- SYNTAX RowStatus
- MAX-ACCESS read-create
- STATUS current
- DESCRIPTION
- "'valid' on interfaces that are configured for
- the Guaranteed Service."
- ::= { intSrvGuaranteedIfEntry 4 }
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- -- No notifications are currently defined
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- -- conformance information
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- intSrvGuaranteedGroups OBJECT IDENTIFIER
- ::= { intSrvGuaranteedConformance 1 }
- intSrvGuaranteedCompliances OBJECT IDENTIFIER
- ::= { intSrvGuaranteedConformance 2 }
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- -- compliance statements
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- intSrvGuaranteedCompliance MODULE-COMPLIANCE
- STATUS current
- DESCRIPTION
- "The compliance statement "
- MODULE -- this module
- MANDATORY-GROUPS {
- intSrvGuaranteedIfAttribGroup
- }
- ::= { intSrvGuaranteedCompliances 1 }
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- intSrvGuaranteedIfAttribGroup OBJECT-GROUP
- OBJECTS {
- intSrvGuaranteedIfBacklog,
- intSrvGuaranteedIfDelay,
- intSrvGuaranteedIfSlack,
- intSrvGuaranteedIfStatus
- }
- STATUS current
- DESCRIPTION
- "These objects are required for Systems sup-
- porting the Guaranteed Service of the Integrat-
- ed Services Architecture."
- ::= { intSrvGuaranteedGroups 2 }
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- END
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- 4. Security Considerations
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- The use of an SNMP SET results in an RSVP or Integrated Services
- reservation under rules that are different compared to if the
- reservation was negotiated using RSVP. However, no other security
- considerations exist other than those imposed by SNMP itself.
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- 5. Authors' Addresses
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- Fred Baker
- Postal: Cisco Systems
- 519 Lado Drive
- Santa Barbara, California 93111
-
- Phone: +1 805 681 0115
- EMail: fred@cisco.com
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- John Krawczyk
- Postal: ArrowPoint Communications
- 235 Littleton Road
- Westford, Massachusetts 01886
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- Phone: +1 508 692 5875
- EMail: jjk@tiac.net
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- Arun Sastry
- Postal: Cisco Systems
- 210 W. Tasman Drive
- San Jose, California 95314
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- Phone: +1 408 526 7685
- EMail: arun@cisco.com
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- 6. Acknowledgements
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- This document was produced by the Integrated Services Working Group.
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- 7. References
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- [1] Rose, M., Editor, "Management Information Base for
- Network Management of TCP/IP-based internets", STD 17, RFC 1213,
- May 1990.
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- [2] Information processing systems - Open Systems
- Interconnection - Specification of Abstract Syntax Notation One
- (ASN.1), International Organization for Standardization.
- International Standard 8824, (December, 1987).
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- [3] Information processing systems - Open Systems
- Interconnection - Specification of Basic Encoding Rules for
- Abstract Notation One (ASN.1), International Organization for
- Standardization. International Standard 8825, (December, 1987).
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