Operational Statistics (opstat) Concluded WG

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WG	Name	Operational Statistics
	Acronym	opstat
	Area	Operational Requirements Area (ops-old)
	State	Concluded
	Charter	charter-ietf-opstat-01 Approved
	Dependencies	Document dependency graph (SVG)
Personnel	Chairs	Henry Clark Nevil Brownlee
	Area Director	Scott Bradner
Mailing list	Address	oswg-l@wugate.wustl.edu
	To subscribe	oswg-l-request@wugate.wustl.edu
	Archive	ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/mailing-lists/oswg-l

Charter for Working Group

Today there exists a variety of network management tools for
the collection and presentation of network statistical data.
Different kinds of measurements and presentation techniques
make it hard to compare data between networks. There exists a
need to compare these statistical data on a uniform basis to
facilitate cooperative management, ease problem isolation and
network planning.

The working group will try to define a model for network
statistics, a minimal set of common metrics, tools for
gathering statistical data, a common statistical database
storage format and common presentation formats. Collecting
tools will store data in a given format later to be retrieved
by presentation tools displaying the data in a predefined way.

Milestones

Date	Milestone
Jul 1993	Submit the Statistical Opstat MIB to the IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard.
Done	Submit the Client/Server Opstat Protocol to the IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard. Note: Submitted for publication as an Informational RFC.
Done	Post an Internet-Draft defining the client/Server Opstat protcool.
Done	Post the Opstat Statistical MIB as an Internet-Draft.
Done	Submit new and old tools Internet-Draft to IESG as an Informational RFC.
Done	Submit Internet-Draft of new and retrofitted tools.
Done	Propose old tools to be retrofitted.
Done	Develop outline and make writing assignments for paper (Opstat2) on new tools and retrofitted tools.
Done	Define a new collection of tools based on defined metrics, defined storage formats and defined presentation formats.
Done	Approve paper Opstat1 for submission as RFC; decide standards-track or Informational?
Done	Submit Opstat1 as Internet-Draft.
Done	Possible mid-term meeting to review Opstat1.
Done	Complete paper Opstat1.
Done	Propose a MIB for metrics not already there.
Done	Develop outline, and make writing assignments for paper (Opstat1) documenting March 1991 milestones.
Done	Define common presentation formats to make data comparable.
Done	Define a common storage format to facilitate data sharing.
Done	Survey for most useful and popular presentation formats.
Done	Identify similar efforts being performed by other groups.
Done	Define a common minimal set of metrics.
Done	Agreement on a model.
Done	Survey for most useful and popular metrics.