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Conference azur::mcc

Title:	DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT.
Notice:	Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187
Moderator:	TAEC::BEROUD

Created:	Mon Aug 21 1989
Last Modified:	Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	6497
Total number of notes:	27359

2089.0. "Manage Apple MacIntoshes via SNMP" by MXOV06::LERIOS () Mon Jan 13 1992 14:00

Hi:

We have a customer who is interested in our solution

in network management (DECmcc). Their network is composed

by about 100 MAC's  and some MICROVAX's (3400, 3800) and some

VAX's (4000). Reading a document titled "Announced DECmcc Strategic 

Vendors" I saw that is is expected to enter a field test of a

"SNMP AGENT FOR MAC" in early 1992"

Could someone tell me what is the status of this AM?

Is it some additional information about the characteristics (funcionality)

of this access module.  

What can offer right now to solve the management of this environment?

ALso they have some MAC's with PATHWORKS but is not the majority.

Thanks in advance, and regards

Julio Lerios (digital Mexico)

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2089.1	AM is different from agent	TOOK::MINTZ	Erik Mintz, DECmcc Development	`Mon Jan 13 1992 15:42`	15
	>Vendors" I saw that is is expected to enter a field test of a >"SNMP AGENT FOR MAC" in early 1992" >Could someone tell me what is the status of this AM? An "agent" is not an "AM". The agent is code that runs on each target system (in your case, the MACs) to respond to queries. An AM is an access module that sits on the DECmcc director. Once the MAC has an agent, you should be able to use the standard SNMP AM to get information from that agent. Perhaps someone from the SVP group can fill you in on the status. -- Erik
2089.2	Manage Apple MacIntoshes via SNMP	MXOV06::LERIOS		`Mon Jan 13 1992 18:09`	12
	Erick , thanks for your comment about AM & agent, an sorry by my mistake. I hope someone can tell me something else about MAC's agent. regards (Julio Lerios)
2089.3		SUBWAY::REILLY	Mike Reilly - New York Bank District	`Tue Jan 14 1992 13:08`	12
	I doubt if anybody will be able to tell you much about Apple's SNMP agent as I don't believe any such product exists from Apple. Apple have stated that they are moving to SNMP based management for Appletalk but their current intent is to run the SNMP agent on top of the Appletalk stack! An internet MIB was defined recently and it is available in RFC 1243. Apple were involved in the design of this MIB but I have not read anywhere that this is the MIB they will use in their final SNMP product. Does anybody have a more up to date status from Apple? - Mike
2089.4	Apple Management Coming...	DELNI::TERZIAN		`Thu Jan 16 1992 16:59`	21
	At last check, Apple was working on MIBS for AppleTalk and the Macintosh. The AppleTalk MIB was largely written by Steven Waldbusser at Carnegie Mellon University and it's currently an RFC. The first phase of Macintosh management (by Apple) is scheduled to use the IP stack. However, most of the installed Macintosh base uses AppleTalk. Therefore, the next phase is to run SNMP over Apple's Datagram Delivery Protocol (DDP). Field test for the first solution hasn't occurred so we don't have anything to work with yet. This solution should be easily implemented on both DECmcc/VMS and DECmcc/ULTRIX. The hope is that the AppleTalk for VMS stack will allow us to implement the second solution without much pain on DECmcc/VMS. However, DECmcc/ULTRIX may be another story since at last check a comparable stack didn't exist on ULTRIX. We should have more info in a couple of months once we receive the field test software from Apple. Dave
2089.5	APPLE management?	MXOV06::LERIOS		`Thu Apr 30 1992 12:59`	6
	Are there some news about APPLE Management? I would appreciate any comments regards, Julio Lerios