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SNMP Over a Multi-Protocol Internet (mpsnmp) Charter Status: Concluded March, 1993 Chair(s): Theodore Brunner Description of Working Group: Within the SNMP management framework, the philosophy is to place the burden of management processing on managers, not on agents. As the Internet evolves to accommodate multiple protocol suites, there may be SNMP agents in the Internet that do not support the recommended method of exchanging SNMP messages using UDP/IP. In these instances, the proper model for managing a multiprotocol internet should be that agents must only be required to support one method of exchanging SNMP messages (i.e., encapsulation of SNMP messages in *one* of the protocol suites of the multi-protocol internet), and the managers support as many encapsulation methods as needed (potentially, all) to communicate with all resources it manages. The SNMP over a Multi-protocol Internet Working Group is chartered to identify and provide solutions for communication between SNMP agents and managers in those configurations where the recommended method of exchanging SNMP messages using UDP/IP cannot be used; i.e., where a managed resource supports a single protocol suite that protocol is not UDP/IP but another protocol suite of the multi-protocol internet (for example, OSI, AppleTalk, or XNS/IPX). Questions to be considered include: What are the appropriate protocol suites to consider? What is the appropriate method of encapsulating SNMP? What are the addressing considerations for SNMP messages What new MIB Modules are required? What (positive) effect can SNMP-based management have on resource-sharing among multiple protocols? Request for Comments: |
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