Textual Conventions for version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
RFC 1443
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RFC - Proposed Standard
(April 1993; No errata)
Obsoleted by RFC 1903
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Authors | Jeff Case , Keith McCloghrie , Marshall Rose , Steven Waldbusser | ||
Last updated | 2013-03-02 | ||
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Network Working Group J. Case
Request for Comments: 1443 SNMP Research, Inc.
K. McCloghrie
Hughes LAN Systems
M. Rose
Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.
S. Waldbusser
Carnegie Mellon University
April 1993
Textual Conventions
for version 2 of the
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
Status of this Memo
This RFC specifes an IAB standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions
for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the
"IAB Official Protocol Standards" for the standardization
state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo
is unlimited.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction .......................................... 2
1.1 A Note on Terminology ............................... 3
2 Definitions ........................................... 4
3 Mapping of the TEXTUAL-CONVENTION macro ............... 22
3.1 Mapping of the DISPLAY-HINT clause .................. 22
3.2 Mapping of the STATUS clause ........................ 24
3.3 Mapping of the DESCRIPTION clause ................... 24
3.4 Mapping of the REFERENCE clause ..................... 24
3.5 Mapping of the SYNTAX clause ........................ 24
4 Acknowledgements ...................................... 26
5 References ............................................ 30
6 Security Considerations ............................... 31
7 Authors' Addresses .................................... 31
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RFC 1443 Textual Conventions for SNMPv2 April 1993
1. Introduction
A network management system contains: several (potentially
many) nodes, each with a processing entity, termed an agent,
which has access to management instrumentation; at least one
management station; and, a management protocol, used to convey
management information between the agents and management
stations. Operations of the protocol are carried out under an
administrative framework which defines both authentication and
authorization policies.
Network management stations execute management applications
which monitor and control network elements. Network elements
are devices such as hosts, routers, terminal servers, etc.,
which are monitored and controlled through access to their
management information.
Management information is viewed as a collection of managed
objects, residing in a virtual information store, termed the
Management Information Base (MIB). Collections of related
objects are defined in MIB modules. These modules are written
using a subset of OSI's Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1)
[1], termed the Structure of Management Information (SMI) [2].
When designing a MIB module, it is often useful to new define
types similar to those defined in the SMI. In comparison to a
type defined in the SMI, each of these new types has a
different name, a similar syntax, but a more precise
semantics. These newly defined types are termed textual
conventions, and are used for the convenience of humans
reading the MIB module. It is the purpose of this document to
define the initial set of textual conventions available to all
MIB modules.
Objects defined using a textual convention are always encoded
by means of the rules that define their primitive type.
However, textual conventions often have special semantics
associated with them. As such, an ASN.1 macro, TEXTUAL-
CONVENTION, is used to concisely convey the syntax and
semantics of a textual convention.
For all textual conventions defined in an information module,
the name shall be unique and mnemonic, and shall not exceed 64
characters in length. All names used for the textual
conventions defined in all "standard" information modules
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