Technical Summary
This memo defines a portion of the Management Information
Base (MIB) for use with network management protocols in the
Internet community. In particular, it describes managed
objects for information related to the Fibre Channel
network's Virtual Fabric function.
Working Group Summary
There seems to be wide support in the WG for this document, although the
participation in the WG was thin lately.
Protocol Quality
The document was reviewed by Bert Wijnen on behalf of the IESG.
It was reviewed also in Technical Committee
T11 (the official Fibre Channel standards body). T11 voted to
recommend a prior version of this document to the IETF.
Keith McCloghrie is acting as MIB expert for the IMSS WG.
Note to RFC Editor
1. In the title of Section 6
OLD:
6. The T11-FC-IRTUAL-FABRIC-MIB Module
NEW:
6. The T11-FC-VIRTUAL-FABRIC-MIB Module
2. Add to Section 1 the following:
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
3. Add a normative reference to RFC 2119
4. In Section 5
OLD:
This MIB module provides the means for monitoring the
operation of, and configuring some parameters of, one or more
instances of Fibre Channel Virtual Fabric functionality.
(Note that there are no definitions in this MIB module of
"managed actions" which can be invoked via SNMP.)
NEW:
This MIB module provides the means for monitoring the
operation of, and configuring some parameters of, one or more
instances of Fibre Channel Virtual Fabric functionality.
(Note that there are no definitions in this MIB module of
"managed actions" which can be invoked via a remote network
management protocol such as SNMP.)
5. In Section 5.1:
OLD:
The object, fcmInstanceIndex, is IMPORTed from the FC-MGMT-
MIB [RFC4044] as the index value to uniquely identify each
Fibre Channel management instance within the same SNMP
context ([RFC3411] section 3.3.1).
NEW:
The object, fcmInstanceIndex, is IMPORTed from the FC-MGMT-
MIB [RFC4044] as the index value to uniquely identify each
Fibre Channel management instance, for example within the
same SNMP context ([RFC3411] section 3.3.1).
6. In Section 6:
OLD:
This table augments the fcmSwitchTable, i.e., every entry
in this table has a one-to-one correspondence with an
entry in the fcmSwitchTable. At the time when the
fcmSwitchTable was defined, it applied to physical
switches. With the definition and usage of virtual
switches, fcmSwitchTable now applies to virtual switches
which (unlike physical fabrics) are create-able via SNMP.
So, this entry contains a RowStatus object (to allow the
creation of a virtual switch), as well as a StorageType
object. Obviously, if a row is created/deleted in this
table, the corresponding row in the fcmSwitchTable will
be created/deleted."
NEW:
This table augments the fcmSwitchTable, i.e., every entry
in this table has a one-to-one correspondence with an
entry in the fcmSwitchTable. At the time when the
fcmSwitchTable was defined, it applied to physical
switches. With the definition and usage of virtual switches,
fcmSwitchTable now applies to virtual switches as well as
physical switches, and (in contrast to physical switches)
it is appropriate to provide the capability for virtual
switches to be created via remote management applications,
e.g., via SNMP.
So, this entry contains a RowStatus object (to allow the
creation of a virtual switch), as well as a StorageType
object. Obviously, if a row is created/deleted in this
table, the corresponding row in the fcmSwitchTable will
be created/deleted."
IANA Note
Upon approval IANA will be requested to allocate a sub-tree identifier for
this MIB module under mib-2.