SNMP Agent Extensibility (agentx)

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NOTE: This charter is a snapshot of the 52nd IETF Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah USA. It may now be out-of-date. Last Modified: 04-Dec-01

Chair(s):
Bob Natale <bnatale@lucent.com>
Operations and Management Area Director(s):
Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Bert Wijnen <bwijnen@lucent.com>
Operations and Management Area Advisor:
Bert Wijnen <bwijnen@lucent.com>
Editor(s):
Mark Ellison <ellison@world.std.com>
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Description of Working Group:
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   Publication of AgentX protocol specification as Proposed
Done   Publication of AgentX MIB specification as a Proposed Standard
Done   Implementation reports formally solicited
Done   Interoperability reports formally solicited
Done   Implementation and interoperability reports summarized (by WG Chair) and assessed via WG e-mail discussion
Done   All open issues resolved
Done   Modifications (if any) to documents (RFC2741 and RFC2742) completed
Done   Decision to advance or recycle made by WG and handed off to IESGfor action
Done   Request for advancement of RFC 2741 and 2742 made to IESG
Jan 02   Shutdown WG or re-charter
No Current Internet-Drafts

Request For Comments:
RFCStatusTitle
RFC2741PSAgent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol
RFC2742PSDefinitions of Managed Objects for Extensible SNMP Agents

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