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- Host Resources MIB (hostmib)
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- Charter
- Last Modified: 21-Sep-93
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- Current Status: Concluded Working Group
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- Chair(s):
- Steven Waldbusser <waldbusser@ins.com>
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- Network Management Area Director(s):
- Deirdre Kostick <kostick@qsun.att.com>
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- Network Management Area Advisor:
- Deirdre Kostick <kostick@qsun.att.com>
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- Mailing Lists:
- General Discussion:hostmib@andrew.cmu.edu
- To Subscribe: hostmib-request@andrew.cmu.edu
- Archive:
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- Description of Working Group:
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- The Host Resources MIB Working Group is chartered to produce exactly
- one document that defines SNMP MIB objects that instrument
- characteristics common to all Internet hosts. The goal of this work is
- to address the urgent operational need in the Internet community for
- management of host systems. Owing to this urgency, the working group
- will focus exclusively on the alignment of existing MIB technology in
- order to achieve common solutions in a timely manner.
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- For purposes of this effort, the term ``Internet host'' is construed to
- mean any computer that communicates with other similar computers
- attached to the Internet and that is directly used by one or more human
- beings. Although the work of the group does not necessarily apply to
- devices whose primary function is communications services (e.g.,
- terminal servers, routers, bridges, monitoring equipment), such
- relevance is not explicitly precluded. The single MIB produced shall
- instrument attributes common to all Internet hosts including, for
- example, both personal computers and systems that run variants of
- Unix.
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- The methodology of this working group is to focus entirely on the
- alignment of existing, enterprise-specific MIBs for SNMP that are
- relevant to its task. The group will work towards its goal by
- distillation and generalization of these existing MIBs into a single,
- common MIB definition.
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- Owing to the urgent operational need for managing host systems, this
- effort will not be comprehensive in scope. Rather, the MIB produced by
- this group will be confined to critical information about hardware and
- software configuration, processor and memory use, and data storage
- capacities, backup, and use.
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- Owing to the lack of a well-understood and accepted architecture, the
- working group will not address in any way, mechanisms that could be used
- to monitor or control the use of licensed software products.
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- All definitions produced by the group will be consistent with the SNMP
- network management framework and all other Internet-standard MIBs for
- SNMP. Wherever possible, the definitions produced will make use of or
- align with relevant work in progress with chartered working groups of
- the IETF. Also, wherever possible, the working group will take into
- consideration pre-existing, stable work produced by other, accredited
- standards bodies.
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- Goals and Milestones:
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- Done First working group meeting. Discuss the initial proposed
- document.
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- Done Post an Internet-Draft describing the Host Resources MIB.
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- Done Hold an interim meeting to discuss the current document.
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- Done Meet at the IETF plenary to identify changes necessary for
- Working Group closure.
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- Dec 92 Submit the Host Resources MIB to the IESG as a Proposed
- Standard.
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- Internet-Drafts:
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- No Current Internet-Drafts.
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- Request For Comments:
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- RFC Stat Published Title
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- RFC1514 PS Sep 93 Host Resources MIB
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