Definitions of Managed Objects for Service Level Agreements Performance Monitoring
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Network Working Group                                            K. White
Request for Comments: 2758                                      IBM Corp.
Category: Experimental                                      February 2000

           Definitions of Managed Objects for Service Level
                   Agreements Performance Monitoring

Status of this Memo

   This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet
   community.  It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
   Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested.
   Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   This memo defines a Management Information Base (MIB) for performance
   monitoring of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) defined via policy
   definitions.  The MIB defined herein focuses on defining a set of
   objects for monitoring SLAs and not on replication of the content of
   the policy definitions being monitored.  The goal of the MIB defined
   within this document is to defined statistics related to a policy
   rule definition for reporting on the effect that a policy rule has on
   a system and to defined a method of monitoring this data.

Table of Contents

   1.0  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.0  The SNMP Network Management Framework   . . . . . . . . . .   2
   3.0  Structure of the MIB  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.1  Scalar objects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   3.2  slapmPolicyNameTable  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   3.3  slapmPolicyRuleStatsTable   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   3.4  slapmPRMonTable   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   3.5  slapmSubcomponentTable  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   4.0  Definitions   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   5.0  Security Considerations   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  67
   6.0  Intellectual Property   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  67
   7.0  Acknowledgments   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  68
   8.0  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  68
   9.0  Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  70
   10.0  Full Copyright Statement   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  71

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1.0  Introduction

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED",  "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119, reference
   [13].

   This document's purpose is to define a MIB module for performance
   management of Service Level Agreements (SLAs).  It is assumed that an
   SLA is defined via policy schema definitions.  The policy definitions
   being modeled with respect to performance management is primarily
   related to network Quality of Service (QOS).  There are a number of
   methods that exist for defining and administering policy.  Definition
   of these methods is considered out side of the scope of this
   document.

   The MIB module defined within this memo has been modeled using the
   various versions of the schema definitions being developed within the
   Policy Framework Working Group in the IETF.  The content of the MIB
   defined within this memo has evolved along with the Policy Framework
   Working Group schema definitions.

2.0  The SNMP Network Management Framework

   The SNMP Management Framework presently consists of five major
   components:

   o  An overall architecture, described in RFC 2571 [7].

   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 STD
      16, RFC 1155 [14], STD 16, RFC 1212 [15] and RFC 1215 [16].  The
      second version, called SMIv2, is described in STD 58, RFC 2578
      [3], STD 58, RFC 2579 [4] and STD 58, RFC 2580 [5].

   o  Message protocols for transferring management information.  The
      first version of the SNMP message protocol is called SNMPv1 and
      described in STD 15, RFC 1157 [1].  A second version of the SNMP
      message protocol, which is not an Internet standards track
      protocol, is called SNMPv2c and described in RFC 1901 [17] and RFC
      1906 [18].  The third version of the message protocol is called
      SNMPv3 and described in RFC 1906 [18], RFC 2572 [8] and RFC 2574
      [10].

   o  Protocol operations for accessing management information.  The
      first set of protocol operations and associated PDU formats is
      described in STD 15, RFC 1157 [1].  A second set of protocol

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