Network Working Group Ned Freed, Innosoft
Internet Draft Steve Kille, ISODE Consortium
Obsoletes: 1565, 2248 <draft-ietf-madman-netsm-mib-03.txt>
Network Services Monitoring MIB
May 1999
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1. Introduction
A networked application is a realization of some well-defined service on
one or more host computers that is accessible via some network, uses
some network for its internal operations, or both.
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There are a wide range of networked applications for which it is
appropriate to provide SNMP monitoring of their network usage. This
includes applications using both TCP/IP and OSI networking. This
document defines a MIB which contains the elements common to the
monitoring of any network service application. This information
includes a table of all monitorable network service applications, a
count of the associations (connections) to each application, and basic
information about the parameters and status of each application-related
association.
This MIB may be used on its own for any application, and for most simple
applications this will suffice. This MIB is also designed to serve as a
building block which can be used in conjunction with application-
specific monitoring and management. Two examples of this are MIBs
defining additional variables for monitoring a Message Transfer Agent
(MTA) service or a Directory Service Agent (DSA) service. It is expected
that further MIBs of this nature will be specified.
This MIB does not attempt to provide facilities for management of the
host or hosts the network service application runs on, nor does it
provide facilities for monitoring applications that provide something
other than a network service. Host resource and general application
monitoring is handled by either the Host Resources MIB [1] or the
application MIB [2].
2. Table of Contents
1 Introduction .................................................... 1
2 Table of Contents ............................................... 2
3 The SNMP Network Management Framework ........................... 3
4 Rationale for having a Network Services Monitoring MIB .......... 4
4.1 General Relationship to Other MIBs ............................ 4
4.2 Restriction of Scope .......................................... 4
4.3 Configuration Information ..................................... 5
5 Application Objects ............................................. 5
6 Definitions ..................................................... 6
7 Changes made since RFC 2248 ..................................... 22
8 Acknowledgements ................................................ 22
9 References ...................................................... 22
10 Security Considerations ........................................ 24
11 Author and Chair Addresses ..................................... 25
12 Full Copyright Statement ....................................... 25
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3. The SNMP Network Management Framework
The SNMP Management Framework presently consists of five major
components:
o An overall architecture, described in RFC 2571 [3].
o Mechanisms for describing and naming objects and events for the
purpose of management. The first version of this Structure of
Management Information (SMI) is called SMIv1 and described in
RFC 1155 [4], RFC 1212 [5] and RFC 1215 [6]. The second version,
called SMIv2, is described in RFC 2578 [7], RFC 2579 [8] and RFC
2580 [9].
o Message protocols for transferring management information. The
first version of the SNMP message protocol is called SNMPv1 and
described in RFC 1157 [10]. A second version of the SNMP message
protocol, which is not an Internet standards track protocol, is
called SNMPv2c and described in RFC 1901 [11] and RFC 1906 [12].
The third version of the message protocol is called SNMPv3 and
described in RFC 1906 [12], RFC 2572 [13] and RFC 2574 [14].
o Protocol operations for accessing management information. The
first set of protocol operations and associated PDU formats is
described in RFC 1157 [10]. A second set of protocol operations
and associated PDU formats is described in RFC 1905 [15].
o A set of fundamental applications described in RFC 2573 [16] and
the view-based access control mechanism described in RFC 2575
[17].
Managed objects are accessed via a virtual information store, termed the
Management Information Base or MIB. Objects in the MIB are defined
using the mechanisms defined in the SMI.
This memo specifies a MIB module that is compliant to the SMIv2. A MIB
conforming to the SMIv1 can be produced through the appropriate
translations. The resulting translated MIB must be semantically
equivalent, except where objects or events are omitted because no
translation is possible (use of Counter64). Some machine readable
information in SMIv2 will be converted into textual descriptions in
SMIv1 during the translation process. However, this loss of machine
readable information is not considered to change the semantics of the
MIB.
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4. Rationale for having a Network Services Monitoring MIB
Much effort has been expended in developing tools to manage lower layer
network facilities. However, relatively little work has been done on
managing application layer entities. It is neither efficient nor
reasonable to manage all aspects of application layer entities using
only lower layer information. Moreover, the difficulty of managing
application entities in this way increases dramatically as application
entities become more complex.
This leads to a substantial need to monitor applications which provide
network services, particularly distributed components such as MTAs and
DSAs, by monitoring specific aspects of the application itself. Reasons
to monitor such components include but are not limited to measuring
load, detecting broken connectivity, isolating system failures, and
locating congestion.
In order to manage network service applications effectively two
requirements must be met:
(1) It must be possible to monitor a large number of components
(typical for a large organization).
(2) Application monitoring must be integrated into general network
management.
This specification defines simple read-only access; this is sufficient
to determine up/down status and provide an indication of a broad class
of operational problems.
4.1. General Relationship to Other MIBs
This MIB is intended to only provide facilities common to the monitoring
of any network service application. It does not provide all the
facilities necessary to monitor any specific application. Each specific
type of network service application is expected to have a MIB of its own
that makes use of these common facilities.
4.2. Restriction of Scope
The framework provided here is very minimal; there is a lot more that
could be done. For example:
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(1) General network service application configuration monitoring and
control.
(2) Detailed examination and modification of individual entries in
service-specific request queues.
(3) Probing to determine the status of a specific request (e.g., the
location of a mail message with a specific message-id).
(4) Requesting that certain actions be performed (e.g., forcing an
immediate connection and transfer of pending messages to some
specific system).
All these capabilities are both impressive and useful. However, these
capabilities would require provisions for strict security checking.
These capabilities would also mandate a much more complex design, with
many characteristics likely to be fairly implementation-specific. As a
result such facilities are likely to be both contentious and difficult
to implement.
This document religiously keeps things simple and focuses on the basic
monitoring aspect of managing applications providing network services.
The goal here is to provide a framework which is simple, useful, and
widely implementable.
4.3. Configuration Information
This MIB attempts to provide information about the operational aspects
of an application. Further information about the actual configuration of
a given application may be kept in other places; the applDirectoryName
or applURL may be used to point to places where such information is
kept.
5. Application Objects
This MIB defines a set of general purpose attributes which would be
appropriate for a range of applications that provide network services.
Both OSI and non-OSI services can be accommodated. Additional tables
defined in extensions to this MIB provide attributes specific to
specific network services.
A table is defined which will have one row for each operational network
service application on the system. The only static information held on
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the application is its name. All other static information should be
obtained from various directory services. The applDirectoryName is an
external key, which allows an SNMP MIB entry to be cleanly related to
the X.500 Directory. In SNMP terms, the applications are grouped in a
table called applTable, which is indexed by an integer key applIndex.
The type of the application will be determined by one or both of:
(1) Additional MIB variables specific to the applications.
(2) An association to the application of a specific protocol.
6. Definitions
NETWORK-SERVICES-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN
IMPORTS
OBJECT-TYPE, Counter32, Gauge32, MODULE-IDENTITY, mib-2
FROM SNMPv2-SMI
DisplayString, TimeStamp, TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
FROM SNMPv2-TC
MODULE-COMPLIANCE, OBJECT-GROUP
FROM SNMPv2-CONF;
application MODULE-IDENTITY
LAST-UPDATED "9905120000Z"
ORGANIZATION "IETF Mail and Directory Management Working Group"
CONTACT-INFO
" Ned Freed
Postal: Innosoft International, Inc.
1050 Lakes Drive
West Covina, CA 91790
US
Tel: +1 626 919 3600
Fax: +1 626 919 3614
E-Mail: ned.freed@innosoft.com"
DESCRIPTION
"The MIB module describing network service applications"
REVISION "9905120000Z"
DESCRIPTION
"This revision, published in RFC XXXX, fixes a few small
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technical problems found in previous versions, mostly in
regards to the conformance groups for different versions
of this MIB. No changes have been made to the objects
this MIB defines since RFC 2248."
REVISION "9708170000Z"
DESCRIPTION
"This revision, published in RFC 2248, adds the
applDescription and applURL objects, adds the quiescing
state to the applOperStatus object and renames the MIB
from the APPLICATION-MIB to the NETWORK-SERVICE-MIB."
REVISION "9311280000Z"
DESCRIPTION
"The original version of this MIB was published in RFC 1565"
::= {mib-2 27}
-- Textual conventions
-- DistinguishedName is used to refer to objects in the
-- directory.
DistinguishedName ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
DISPLAY-HINT "255a"
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A Distinguished Name represented in accordance with
RFC 1779, presented in the NVT ASCII charset
defined in RFC 854."
SYNTAX OCTET STRING (SIZE (0..255))
-- Uniform Resource Locators are stored in URLStrings.
URLString ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
DISPLAY-HINT "255a"
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A Uniform Resource Locator represented in accordance
with RFCs 1738 and 2368, presented in the NVT ASCII
charset defined in RFC 854."
SYNTAX OCTET STRING (SIZE (0..255))
-- The basic applTable contains a list of the application
-- entities.
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applTable OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF ApplEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The table holding objects which apply to all different
kinds of applications providing network services.
Each network service application capable of being
monitored should have a single entry in this table."
::= {application 1}
applEntry OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX ApplEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"An entry associated with a single network service
application."
INDEX {applIndex}
::= {applTable 1}
ApplEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
applIndex
INTEGER,
applName
DisplayString,
applDirectoryName
DistinguishedName,
applVersion
DisplayString,
applUptime
TimeStamp,
applOperStatus
INTEGER,
applLastChange
TimeStamp,
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applInboundAssociations
Gauge32,
applOutboundAssociations
Gauge32,
applAccumulatedInboundAssociations
Counter32,
applAccumulatedOutboundAssociations
Counter32,
applLastInboundActivity
TimeStamp,
applLastOutboundActivity
TimeStamp,
applRejectedInboundAssociations
Counter32,
applFailedOutboundAssociations
Counter32,
applDescription
DisplayString,
applURL
URLString
}
applIndex OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX INTEGER (1..2147483647)
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"An index to uniquely identify the network service
application. This attribute is the index used for
lexicographic ordering of the table."
::= {applEntry 1}
applName OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX DisplayString
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The name the network service application chooses to be
known by."
::= {applEntry 2}
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applDirectoryName OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX DistinguishedName
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The Distinguished Name of the directory entry where
static information about this application is stored.
An empty string indicates that no information about
the application is available in the directory."
::= {applEntry 3}
applVersion OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX DisplayString
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The version of network service application software.
This field is usually defined by the vendor of the
network service application software."
::= {applEntry 4}
applUptime OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TimeStamp
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The value of sysUpTime at the time the network service
application was last initialized. If the application was
last initialized prior to the last initialization of the
network management subsystem, then this object contains
a zero value."
::= {applEntry 5}
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applOperStatus OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX INTEGER {
up(1),
down(2),
halted(3),
congested(4),
restarting(5),
quiescing(6)
}
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Indicates the operational status of the network service
application. 'down' indicates that the network service is
not available. 'up' indicates that the network service
is operational and available. 'halted' indicates that the
service is operational but not available. 'congested'
indicates that the service is operational but no additional
inbound associations can be accommodated. 'restarting'
indicates that the service is currently unavailable but is
in the process of restarting and will be available soon.
'quiescing' indicates that service is currently operational
but is in the process of shutting down. Additional inbound
associations may be rejected by applications in the
'quiescing' state."
::= {applEntry 6}
applLastChange OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TimeStamp
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The value of sysUpTime at the time the network service
application entered its current operational state. If
the current state was entered prior to the last
initialization of the local network management subsystem,
then this object contains a zero value."
::= {applEntry 7}
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applInboundAssociations OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of current associations to the network service
application, where it is the responder. An inbound
assocation occurs when another application successfully
connects to this one."
::= {applEntry 8}
applOutboundAssociations OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Gauge32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of current associations to the network service
application, where it is the initiator. An outbound
association occurs when this application successfully
connects to another one."
::= {applEntry 9}
applAccumulatedInboundAssociations OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Counter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The total number of associations to the application entity
since application initialization, where it was the responder."
::= {applEntry 10}
applAccumulatedOutboundAssociations OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Counter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The total number of associations to the application entity
since application initialization, where it was the initiator."
::= {applEntry 11}
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applLastInboundActivity OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TimeStamp
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The value of sysUpTime at the time this application last
had an inbound association. If the last association
occurred prior to the last initialization of the network
subsystem, then this object contains a zero value."
::= {applEntry 12}
applLastOutboundActivity OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TimeStamp
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The value of sysUpTime at the time this application last
had an outbound association. If the last association
occurred prior to the last initialization of the network
subsystem, then this object contains a zero value."
::= {applEntry 13}
applRejectedInboundAssociations OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Counter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The total number of inbound associations the application
entity has rejected, since application initialization.
Rejected associations are not counted in the accumulated
association totals. Note that this only counts
associations the application entity has rejected itself;
it does not count rejections that occur at lower layers
of the network. Thus, this counter may not reflect the
true number of failed inbound associations."
::= {applEntry 14}
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applFailedOutboundAssociations OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Counter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The total number associations where the application entity
is initiator and association establishment has failed,
since application initialization. Failed associations are
not counted in the accumulated association totals."
::= {applEntry 15}
applDescription OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX DisplayString
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A text description of the application. This information
is intended to identify and briefly describe the
application in a status display."
::= {applEntry 16}
applURL OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX URLString
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A URL pointing to a description of the application.
This information is intended to identify and describe
the application in a status display."
::= {applEntry 17}
-- The assocTable augments the information in the applTable
-- with information about associations. Note that two levels
-- of compliance are specified below, depending on whether
-- association monitoring is mandated.
assocTable OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF AssocEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The table holding a set of all active application
associations."
::= {application 2}
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assocEntry OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX AssocEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"An entry associated with an association for a network
service application."
INDEX {applIndex, assocIndex}
::= {assocTable 1}
AssocEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
assocIndex
INTEGER,
assocRemoteApplication
DisplayString,
assocApplicationProtocol
OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
assocApplicationType
INTEGER,
assocDuration
TimeStamp
}
assocIndex OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX INTEGER (1..2147483647)
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"An index to uniquely identify each association for a network
service application. This attribute is the index that is
used for lexicographic ordering of the table. Note that the
table is also indexed by the applIndex."
::= {assocEntry 1}
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assocRemoteApplication OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX DisplayString
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The name of the system running remote network service
application. For an IP-based application this should be
either a domain name or IP address. For an OSI application
it should be the string encoded distinguished name of the
managed object. For X.400(1984) MTAs which do not have a
Distinguished Name, the RFC 2156 syntax 'mta in
globalid' used in X400-Received: fields can be used. Note,
however, that not all connections an MTA makes are
necessarily to another MTA."
::= {assocEntry 2}
assocApplicationProtocol OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX OBJECT IDENTIFIER
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"An identification of the protocol being used for the
application. For an OSI Application, this will be the
Application Context. For Internet applications, the IANA
maintains a registry of the OIDs which correspond to
well-known applications. If the application protocol is
not listed in the registry, an OID value of the form
{applTCPProtoID port} or {applUDProtoID port} are used for
TCP-based and UDP-based protocols, respectively. In either
case 'port' corresponds to the primary port number being
used by the protocol."
::= {assocEntry 3}
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assocApplicationType OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX INTEGER {
uainitiator(1),
uaresponder(2),
peerinitiator(3),
peerresponder(4)}
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"This indicates whether the remote application is some type of
client making use of this network service (e.g., a Mail User
Agent) or a server acting as a peer. Also indicated is whether
the remote end initiated an incoming connection to the network
service or responded to an outgoing connection made by the
local application. MTAs and messaging gateways are
considered to be peers for the purposes of this variable."
::= {assocEntry 4}
assocDuration OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TimeStamp
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The value of sysUpTime at the time this association was
started. If this association started prior to the last
initialization of the network subsystem, then this
object contains a zero value."
::= {assocEntry 5}
-- Conformance information
applConformance OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {application 3}
applGroups OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {applConformance 1}
applCompliances OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {applConformance 2}
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-- Compliance statements
applCompliance MODULE-COMPLIANCE
STATUS obsolete
DESCRIPTION
"The compliance statement for RFC 1565 implementations
which support the Network Services Monitoring MIB
for basic monitoring of network service applications.
This is the basic compliance statement for RFC 1565."
MODULE
MANDATORY-GROUPS {applRFC1565Group}
::= {applCompliances 1}
assocCompliance MODULE-COMPLIANCE
STATUS obsolete
DESCRIPTION
"The compliance statement for RFC 1565 implementations
which support the Network Services Monitoring MIB
for basic monitoring of network service applications
and their associations."
MODULE
MANDATORY-GROUPS {applRFC1565Group, assocRFC1565Group}
::= {applCompliances 2}
applRFC2248Compliance MODULE-COMPLIANCE
STATUS deprecated
DESCRIPTION
"The compliance statement for RFC 2248 implementations
which support the Network Services Monitoring MIB
for basic monitoring of network service applications."
MODULE
MANDATORY-GROUPS {applRFC2248Group}
::= {applCompliances 3}
assocRFC2248Compliance MODULE-COMPLIANCE
STATUS deprecated
DESCRIPTION
"The compliance statement for RFC 2248 implementations
which support the Network Services Monitoring MIB for
basic monitoring of network service applications and
their associations."
MODULE
MANDATORY-GROUPS {applRFC2248Group, assocRFC2248Group}
::= {applCompliances 4}
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applRFCXXXXCompliance MODULE-COMPLIANCE
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The compliance statement for RFC XXXX implementations
which support the Network Services Monitoring MIB
for basic monitoring of network service applications."
MODULE
MANDATORY-GROUPS {applRFCXXXXGroup}
::= {applCompliances 5}
assocRFCXXXXCompliance MODULE-COMPLIANCE
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The compliance statement for RFC XXXX implementations
which support the Network Services Monitoring MIB for
basic monitoring of network service applications and
their associations."
MODULE
MANDATORY-GROUPS {applRFCXXXXGroup, assocRFCXXXXGroup}
::= {applCompliances 6}
-- Units of conformance
applRFC1565Group OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS {
applName, applVersion, applUptime, applOperStatus,
applLastChange, applInboundAssociations,
applOutboundAssociations, applAccumulatedInboundAssociations,
applAccumulatedOutboundAssociations, applLastInboundActivity,
applLastOutboundActivity, applRejectedInboundAssociations,
applFailedOutboundAssociations}
STATUS obsolete
DESCRIPTION
"A collection of objects providing basic monitoring of
network service applications. This is the original set
of such objects defined in RFC 1565."
::= {applGroups 7}
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assocRFC1565Group OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS {
assocRemoteApplication, assocApplicationProtocol,
assocApplicationType, assocDuration}
STATUS obsolete
DESCRIPTION
"A collection of objects providing basic monitoring of
network service applications' associations. This is the
original set of such objects defined in RFC 1565."
::= {applGroups 2}
applRFC2248Group OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS {
applName, applVersion, applUptime, applOperStatus,
applLastChange, applInboundAssociations,
applOutboundAssociations, applAccumulatedInboundAssociations,
applAccumulatedOutboundAssociations, applLastInboundActivity,
applLastOutboundActivity, applRejectedInboundAssociations,
applFailedOutboundAssociations, applDescription, applURL}
STATUS deprecated
DESCRIPTION
"A collection of objects providing basic monitoring of
network service applications. This group was originally
defined in RFC 2248; note that applDirectoryName is
missing."
::= {applGroups 3}
assocRFC2248Group OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS {
assocRemoteApplication, assocApplicationProtocol,
assocApplicationType, assocDuration}
STATUS deprecated
DESCRIPTION
"A collection of objects providing basic monitoring of
network service applications' associations. This group
was originally defined by RFC 2248."
::= {applGroups 4}
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applRFCXXXXGroup OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS {
applName, applDirectoryName, applVersion, applUptime,
applOperStatus, applLastChange, applInboundAssociations,
applOutboundAssociations, applAccumulatedInboundAssociations,
applAccumulatedOutboundAssociations, applLastInboundActivity,
applLastOutboundActivity, applRejectedInboundAssociations,
applFailedOutboundAssociations, applDescription, applURL}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A collection of objects providing basic monitoring of
network service applications. This is the appropriate
group for RFC XXXX and adds the applDirectoryName object
missing in RFC 2248."
::= {applGroups 5}
assocRFCXXXXGroup OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS {
assocRemoteApplication, assocApplicationProtocol,
assocApplicationType, assocDuration}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A collection of objects providing basic monitoring of
network service applications' associations. This is
the appropriate group for RFC XXXX."
::= {applGroups 6}
-- OIDs of the form {applTCPProtoID port} are intended to be used
-- for TCP-based protocols that don't have OIDs assigned by other
-- means. {applUDPProtoID port} serves the same purpose for
-- UDP-based protocols. In either case 'port' corresponds to
-- the primary port number being used by the protocol. For example,
-- assuming no other OID is assigned for SMTP, an OID of
-- {applTCPProtoID 25} could be used, since SMTP is a TCP-based
-- protocol that uses port 25 as its primary port.
applTCPProtoID OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {application 4}
applUDPProtoID OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {application 5}
END
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7. Changes made since RFC 2248
This revision corrects a few minor technical errors in the construction
of the network services MIB in RFC 2248 [22]. There are no substantive
changes to any of the objects the MIB defines.
8. Acknowledgements
This document is a product of the Mail and Directory Management (MADMAN)
Working Group. It is based on an earlier MIB designed by S. Kille, T.
Lenggenhager, D. Partain, and W. Yeong. The Electronic Mail
Association's TSC committee was instrumental in providing feedback on
and suggesting enhancements to RFC 1565 [23] that have led to the
present document.
9. References
[1] Grillo, P. and Waldbusser, S., "Host Resources MIB", RFC 1514,
September 1993.
[2] Krupczak, C. and Saperia, J., "Definitions of System-Level Managed
Objects for Applications", RFC 2287, February 1998.
[3] Wijnen, B., Harrington, D., and Presuhn, R., "An Architecture for
Describing SNMP Management Frameworks", RFC 2571, April 1999.
[4] Rose, M. and McCloghrie, K., "Structure and Identification of
Management Information for TCP/IP-based Internets", RFC 1155, May
1990.
[5] Rose, M. and McCloghrie, K., "Concise MIB Definitions", RFC 1212,
March 1991.
[6] Rose, M., "A Convention for Defining Traps for use with the SNMP",
RFC 1215, March 1991.
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[7] McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., and Schoenwaelder, J., "Structure of
Management Information Version 2 (SMIv2)", RFC 2578, April 1999.
[8] McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., and Schoenwaelder, J., "Textual
Conventions for SMIv2", RFC 2579, April 1999.
[9] McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., and Schoenwaelder, J., "Conformance
Statements for SMIv2", RFC 2580, April 1999.
[10] Case, J., Fedor, M., Schoffstall, M., and Davin, J., "Simple
Network Management Protocol", RFC 1157, May 1990.
[11] Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M., and Waldbusser, S.,
"Introduction to Community-based SNMPv2", RFC 1901, January 1996.
[12] Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M., and Waldbusser, S., "Transport
Mappings for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMPv2)", RFC 1906, January 1996.
[13] Case, J., Harrington D., Presuhn R., and Wijnen, B., "Message
Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management
Protocol (SNMP)", RFC 2572, April 1999.
[14] Blumenthal, U. and Wijnen, B., "User-based Security Model (USM) for
version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv3)", RFC
2574, April 1999.
[15] Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M., and Waldbusser, S., "Protocol
Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMPv2)", RFC 1905, January 1996.
[16] Levi, D., Meyer, P., and Stewart, B., "SNMPv3 Applications", RFC
2573, April 1999.
[17] Wijnen, B., Presuhn, R., and K. McCloghrie, "View-based Access
Control Model (VACM) for the Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMP)", RFC 2575, April 1999.
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[18] Kille, S., "A String Representation of Distinguished Names", RFC
1779, March 1995.
[19] Kille, S., "Mapping between X.400(1988) and RFC 822/MIME", RFC
2156, January 1998.
[20] Berners-Lee, T., Masinter, L., McCahill, M., "Uniform Resource
Locators (URL)", RFC 1738, December 1994.
[21] Hoffman, P., Masinter, L., Zawinski, J, "The mailto URL Scheme",
RFC 2368, July 1998.
[22] Freed, N. and Kille, S., "Network Services Monitoring MIB", RFC
2248, January 1998.
[23] Freed, N. and Kille, S., "Network Services Monitoring MIB", RFC
1565, January 1994.
[29] Postel, J. and Reynolds, J., "Telnet Protocol specification", RFC
852, May 1983.
10. Security Considerations
There are no management objects defined in this MIB that have a MAX-
ACCESS clause of read-write and/or read-create. So, if this MIB is
implemented correctly, then there is no risk that an intruder can alter
or create any management objects of this MIB via direct SNMP SET
operations.
However, this MIB does provide passive information about the existence,
type, and configuration of applications on a given host that could
potentially indicate some sort of vulnerability. Finally, the
information MIB provides about network usage could be used to analyze
network traffic patterns.
SNMPv1 by itself is not a secure environment. Even if the network
itself is secure (for example by using IPSec), even then, there is no
control as to who on the secure network is allowed to access and GET/SET
(read/change/create/delete) the objects in this MIB.
It is recommended that the implementers consider the security features
as provided by the SNMPv3 framework. Specifically, the use of the
User-based Security Model RFC 2574 [14] and the View-based Access
Control Model RFC 2575 [17] is recommended.
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It is then a customer/user responsibility to ensure that the SNMP entity
giving access to an instance of this MIB, is properly configured to give
access to the objects only to those principals (users) that have
legitimate rights to indeed GET or SET (change/create/delete) them.
11. Author and Chair Addresses
Ned Freed
Innosoft International, Inc.
1050 Lakes Drive
West Covina, CA 91790
USA
tel: +1 626 919 3600
fax: +1 626 919 3614
email: ned.freed@innosoft.com
Steve Kille, MADMAN WG Chair
ISODE Consortium
The Dome, The Square
Richmond TW9 1DT
UK
tel: +44 181 332 9091
email: S.Kille@isode.com
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