Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) A. Bierman
Request for Comments: 6933 YumaWorks, Inc.
Obsoletes: 4133 D. Romascanu
Category: Standards Track Avaya
ISSN: 2070-1721 J. Quittek
NEC Europe Ltd.
M. Chandramouli
Cisco Systems, Inc.
May 2013
Entity MIB (Version 4)
Abstract
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 used for managing
multiple logical and physical entities managed by a single Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent. This document specifies
version 4 of the Entity MIB. This memo obsoletes version 3 of the
Entity MIB module published as RFC 4133.
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6933.
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Table of Contents
1. The SNMP Management Framework ...................................3
2. Overview ........................................................3
2.1. Terms ......................................................5
2.2. Relationship to Community Strings ..........................6
2.3. Relationship to SNMP Contexts ..............................6
2.4. Relationship to Proxy Mechanisms ...........................6
2.5. Relationship to a Chassis MIB ..............................7
2.6. Relationship to the Interfaces MIB .........................7
2.7. Relationship to the Other MIB Modules ......................7
2.8. Relationship to Naming Scopes ..............................7
2.9. Multiple Instances of the Entity MIB .......................8
2.10. Re-Configuration of Entities ..............................9
2.11. Textual Convention Change .................................9
2.12. MIB Structure .............................................9
2.12.1. entityPhysical Group ..............................10
2.12.2. entityLogical Group ...............................12
2.12.3. entityMapping Group ...............................12
2.12.4. entityGeneral Group ...............................13
2.12.5. entityNotifications Group .........................13
2.13. Multiple Agents ..........................................13
2.14. Changes Since RFC 2037 ...................................14
2.14.1. Textual Conventions ...............................14
2.14.2. New entPhysicalTable Objects ......................14
2.14.3. New entLogicalTable Objects .......................14
2.14.4. Bug Fixes .........................................14
2.15. Changes Since RFC 2737 ...................................15
2.15.1. Textual Conventions ...............................15
2.15.2. New Objects .......................................15
2.15.3. Bug Fixes .........................................15
2.16. Changes Since RFC 4133 ...................................15
2.16.1. MIB Module Addition ...............................15
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