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- This is only a rough draft - Megan 04/20/92
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- Minutes of the Host Resources MIB BOF
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- San Diego, March 16, 1992
- Steven Waldbusser, Chair
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- Agenda
- Introduce charter and mailing list
- Discuss goals
- Identify resources
- Plan for future work
- Straw Proposal
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- The charter for the BOF was introduced:
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- _________________________________________________________________________
- Host Resources MIB BOF
- The purpose of the BOF will be to explore interest in consolidating
- existing private vendor MIBs for SNMP that instrument computer hosts.
- Such instrumentation represents non-network specific information such
- as operational state and hardware and software configuration
- information. This BOF will attempt to outline a plan for future
- activity in this area.
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- Because the internet comprises a wide variety of workstation types,
- discussion will not be confined to workstations that run Unix.
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- The goal of such an activity would be to improve interoperability in
- the Internet environment by consolidating the large number of SNMP SMI
- based objects have been and are being created by a number of vendors
- in this area.
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- Some attempt will be made to identify those areas of existing
- workstation instrumentation in which the desire for commonality is
- most urgently felt.
- _________________________________________________________________________
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- In addition, the mailing list was announced: hostmib@andrew.cmu.edu.
- Please send add/remove requests to hostmib-request@andrew.cmu.edu.
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- The group then began discussing the goals for this effort. Several
- goals outlined in the charter were reiterated:
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- Goal #1: Improve interoperability by consolidating existing vendor MIBs.
- Goal #2: Any objects should be common across platforms (e.g. Unix, PC, Mac).
- Goal #3: Identify the most urgent areas and solve them quickly.
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- Goal #3, the desire for timeliness, was felt rather strongly by the group.
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- A discussion then ensued to attempt to identify the scope of this
- process. It was noted that there are many problems to solve, some of
- which are very complex, and others which are more general in nature
- than instrumentation of hosts.
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- It was also unclear what comprises a host, but it was noted that
- focusing on "personal computers" or "workstations" was most important
- and makes it much easier to find commonality.
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- It was proposed that the most important instrumentation would cover:
- operational state/performance
- Hardware configuration
- Software configuration
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- Furthermore, the focus would be on the following parts of a "host":
- CPU, memory, disk, devices, and software (OS, drivers, applications).
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- The group agreed that a model should be prepared to support this work.
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- The group then began identifying resources for this work. Many
- existing MIBs (and related specs) were identified including:
- Character MIB
- Unix MIB (Marshall Rose)
- Unix MIB (UTK)
- Unix MIB (U. of Colorado)
- Apple System MIB
- Unix MIB (HP)
- Unix MIB (Dec)
- Microcom LanLord
- Racal Interlan
- Unix MIB (Posix)
- Netware 3rd party Lan inventory products
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- In addition, in order to judge if there was sufficient interest in
- moving forward with this work, a show of hands was conducted as to who
- would participate in a Host Resource MIB Working Group, if formed. A
- significant number of people (>30) indicated that they would
- participate.
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- The group achieved consensus on the following plans for the future:
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- Charter a working group (action item: Waldbusser)
- Define a Model
- Write a MIB
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- In the remaining time, a straw proposal was outlined by Pete Grillo.
- This proposal defined a model and a MIB that instrumented common
- objects for "Desktop" hosts.
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- At the end of this presentation, our time was up and the meeting was
- adjourned.
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