Entity MIB (entmib)

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NOTE: This charter is a snapshot of the 59th IETF Meeting in Seoul, Korea. It may now be out-of-date.

Last Modified: 2004-01-29

Chair(s):
Margaret Wasserman <margaret@thingmagic.com>
Operations and Management Area Director(s):
Bert Wijnen <bwijnen@lucent.com>
David Kessens <david.kessens@nokia.com>
Operations and Management Area Advisor:
Bert Wijnen <bwijnen@lucent.com>
Mailing Lists:
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Description of Working Group:
This working group is chartered to standardize a set of managed objects representing logical and physical entities and the relationships between them. Logical entities can occur when a single agent supports multiple instances of one MIB, such as RFCs 1493, 1525, or 1850 where each instance represents a single (logical) device/entity. Physical entities are the actual physical components on which the logical entities operate; typically, the physical components exist in a hierarchy.

The set of objects will be consistent with the SNMP framework and existing SNMP standards.

The scope of the defined managed objects should allow an NMS to interrogate a standard SNMP context and thereby discover what logical and physical entities exist, how to access the MIB information of each logical entity, and the relationships between the various entities. The MIB should support both a single agent or multiple agents in one physical entity.

The WG will also standardize a set of managed objects representing sensor entities. Sensor entities are physical entities that report a value based on external conditions, such as temperature sensors, power monitors, etc. The Sensor Entity MIB will augment the basic Entity MIB to allow an NMS to obtain the value reported by a sensor. This MIB will not contain internal support for alarms or thresholds, but should work with standard alarm and threshold MIBs, such as RMON-2.

Goals and Milestones:
Done  Post Internet-Draft for Entity MIB.
Done  Post updated Entity MIB Internet-Draft.
Done  Submit final version of Internet-Draft for consideration as a Proposed Standard.
Done  Finalize scope of changes/augmentations to RFC 2037
Done  Post updated/new Internet Drafts
Done  Reach agreement on changes/extensions to RFC 2037
Done  Evaluate status of RFC 2037 and report to the IESG if it should be recycled at Proposed or can be elevated to Draft Standard.
Done  Submit Internet Draft containing Entity MIB Extensions to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard.
Done  Evaluate status of Entity MIB and collect implementation and interoperability reports
Done  Recommend to the IESG if Entity MIB can be elevated to Draft Standard.
Done  Post Internet-Draft for Sensor Entity MIB
Done  Determine if the Entity MIB should be modified to resolve any open issues
Done  Submit final version of Internet-Draft for Sensor Entity MIB for consideration as a Proposed Standard
Done  Re-cycle the updated Entity MIB at proposed standard, if necessary
Done  Submit final version of Internet-Draft for Sensor Entity MIB for consideration as a Proposed Standard
Done  Post Internet-Draft for Sensor Entity MIB
Done  Determine if the Entity MIB should be modified to resolve any open issues
Done  Publish state/status extensions as a WG I-D
Done  Evaluate status of the Entity MIB and collect implementation and interoperability reports
Done  Evaluate status of the Entity MIB and collect implementation and interoperability reports
Done  Recommend to the IESG if the Entity MIB can be elevated to Draft Standard.
Feb 04  Submit the Entity MIB to the IESG for Draft Standard
Mar 04  Submit Entity State MIB to the IESG for Proposed Standard
Jun 04  Re-charter or shut-down the WG
Internet-Drafts:
  • - draft-ietf-entmib-v3-04.txt
  • - draft-ietf-entmib-state-03.txt
    • Request For Comments:
    RFCStatusTitle
    RFC2037 PS Entity MIB
    RFC2737 PS Entity MIB (Version 2)
    RFC3433 PS Entity Sensor Management Information Base

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