Concluded WG Distributed Management (disman)

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WG Name Distributed Management
Acronym disman
Area Operations and Management Area (ops)
State Concluded
Charter charter-ietf-disman-01 Approved
Document dependencies
Personnel Chair Randy Presuhn
Area Director Dan Romascanu
Mailing list Address disman@ietf.org
To subscribe disman-request@ietf.org
Archive https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/disman

Final Charter for Working Group

The Distributed Management Working Group is chartered to define an
initial set of managed objects for specific distributed network
management applications which can be consistently developed and
deployed. A distributed network manager is an applicaton that acts
in a manager role to perform management functions and in an agent
role so that it can be remotely controlled and observed.

Distributed network management is widely recognized as a requirement
for dealing with today's growing internets. A manager application is
a good candidate for distribution if it requires minimal user
interaction, it would potentially consume a significant amount of
network resources due to frequent polling or large data retrieval, or
it requires close association with the device(s) being managed.

The working group will limit its work to distributed network management
applications where the main communication mechanism for monitoring
and control is SNMP. Future work (and other working groups) may be
chartered to investigate other distribution techniques such as CORBA
or HTTP. The objects defined by the working group will be consistent
with the SNMP architecture defined in RFC 2571. The working group
will especially keep security considerations in mind when defining
the interface to distributed management.

The working group will complete these tasks:

Define a Scheduling MIB

Define a Script MIB

Define a Remote Operations MIB

Define an Expression and Event MIB to support Threshold Monitoring

Define a Notification Log MIB

Define an Alarm MIB

The working group will consider existing definitions, including:

o the RMON working group's work in this area

o the Application MIB (RFC 2564), SysAppl MIB (RFC 2287) and
related standards.

The work on the Alarm MIB will take into consideration existing
standards and practices, such as ITU-T X.733. Whether any mappings to
these other standards appear in the Alarm MIB or in separate documents
will be decided by the WG. The WG will actively seek participation
from ITU participants to make ensure that the ITU work is correctly
understood.

It is recognized that the scope of this working group is narrow
relative to the potential in the area of distributed network
management. This is intentional in order to increase the likelihood
of producing useful, quality specifications in a timely manner.
However, we will keep in mind and account for potential related or
future work when developing the framework including:

o Event and alarm logging and distribution

o Historical data collection/summarization

o Topology discovery

Milestones

Date Milestone Associated documents
Mar 2004 Implementation Report on Remote Operations MIB

Done milestones

Date Milestone Associated documents
Done Remote Operations MIB submitted to IESG for consideration as Draft Standard
Done WG last call on updates to Remote Operations MIB
Done Alarm Management MIB delivered to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard.
Done WG last call on Alarm Management MIB.
Done call for implementation experience and updates to the remote operations MIB.
Done call for implementation experience and updates to the Event and Expression MIBs.
Done Submit updated draft of Alarm MIB for IETF meeting.
Done decision on question of whether recycle the Log MIB.
Done Submit updated draft of Alarm MIB for IETF meeting
Done Submit updated Script and Schedule MIBs for consideration as Draft Standard (or recycle at Proposed).
Done WG agreement on direction regarding mappings to / from other alarm frameworks
Done Meeting in Oslo to discuss implementation and deployment experience with Schedule and Script mibs, identify any updates needed to these documents.
Done Submit final version of Internet-Draft for Remote Ping, Traceroute, and Lookup Operations Using SMIv2
Done Submit final versions of Internet-Drafts for Expression, Event and Notification MIB documents for consideration as Proposed Standards.
Done Agree on charter revisions for future work.
Done Submit final versions of Internet-Drafts for Script MIB and Schedule MIB document for consideration as Proposed Standards.
Done Meet at the IETF meeting to discuss Internet-Drafts and issues that come up on the mailing list.
Done Submit final version of Threshold Monitor MIB Internet-Draft for consideration as a Proposed Standard. Submit updated versions of Internet-Drafts for Script MIB.
Done Post Internet-Draft for Script MIB.
Done Post Internet-Draft for Framework document.
Done Meet at the Montreal IETF meeting to discuss charter and review the Threshold Monitoring MIB Internet-Draft.
Done Post Internet-Draft for Threshold Monitoring MIB.