| 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 |
A presentation of DECmcc to a local university resulted in the
discovery of a custom mib extension for DECNET.
I was presented with RFC-1289, which apparently is an extension to the
standard mib which will allow the 'management' of DECNET Phase IV nodes
via SNMP.
This document was produced by the DECnet Phase IV working group.
Acknowledgements are made to Jon Saperia of Digital Equipment
Corporation, Chris Chiotasso of Sparticus, and Steven Hunter of
the National Energy Research Supercomputer Center, Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory.
The mib extension follows ASN.1 concise format as described in
RFC-1155.
I will attempt to get the source file to try out.
Comments are welcome.
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| 2153.1 | ENUF::GASSMAN | Tue Jan 21 1992 12:25 | 12 | ||
There are not any vendors using the DECnet MIB yet that I know of, but
probably very soon. It's for vendors such as router vendors that have
decnet specific things to manage - such as setting up the EXEC parameters.
It's really a nice feature to have - because on a cisco router or such,
you can manage the whole thing with SNMP and not have to telnet into
the box to set it up. There don't seem to be any Digital groups that
are going to take advantage of this MIB. It's only Phase IV. A nice
project would be a proxy agent that would accept SNMP commands refering
to DECnet IV objects, and translate it into NICE, allowing any SNMP
manager to manage Digital DECnet Phase IV devices.
bill
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| 2153.2 | MOM might be better than a proxy | BLUMON::SYLOR | Architect = Buzzword Generator | Tue Jan 28 1992 20:28 | 11 |
A more interesting project is to write a common agent MOM for Phase IV
DECnet, VAX or Ultrix. Then you'ld be able to manage a Phase IV node
using the Phase V CMIP and SNMP (and eventually RPC...). Now there's a
useful product.
The problem with a "gateway" or "proxy" box is the limited # of sales
(you might not sell more than one per net, vs. 1 per VAX or MIPSCO).
Even at $50 a copy - there are many thousands of DECnet-VAX licences out
there...
Mark
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