Overview of the 2002 IAB Network Management Workshop
RFC 3535
Document | Type |
RFC - Informational
(May 2003; No errata)
Was draft-iab-nm-workshop (iab)
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Author | Jürgen Schönwälder | ||
Last updated | 2013-03-02 | ||
Stream | Internet Architecture Board (IAB) | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized (tools) htmlized bibtex | ||
Stream | IAB state | (None) | |
Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
RFC Editor Note | (None) |
Network Working Group J. Schoenwaelder Request for Comments: 3535 International University Bremen Category: Informational May 2003 Overview of the 2002 IAB Network Management Workshop Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). All Rights Reserved. Abstract This document provides an overview of a workshop held by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) on Network Management. The workshop was hosted by CNRI in Reston, VA, USA on June 4 thru June 6, 2002. The goal of the workshop was to continue the important dialog started between network operators and protocol developers, and to guide the IETFs focus on future work regarding network management. This report summarizes the discussions and lists the conclusions and recommendations to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) community. Schoenwaelder Informational [Page 1] RFC 3535 IAB Network Management Workshop May 2003 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Network Management Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.1 SNMP / SMI / MIBs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.2 COPS-PR / SPPI / PIBs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.3 CIM / MOF / UML / PCIM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.4 CLI / TELNET / SSH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.5 HTTP / HTML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.6 XML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3. Operator Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4. SNMP Framework Discussions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 5. Consolidated Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 6. Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 8. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Appendix - Participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 1. Introduction The IETF has started several activities in the operations and management area to develop technologies and standards that aim to help network operators manage their networks. The main network management technologies currently being developed within the IETF are: o The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) [RFC3410] was created in the late 1980s. The initial version (SNMPv1) is widely deployed, while the latest version (SNMPv3), which addresses security requirements, is just beginning to gain significant deployment. o The Common Information Model (CIM) [CIM], developed by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), has been extended in cooperation with the DMTF to describe high-level policies as rule sets (PCIM) [RFC3060]. Mappings of the CIM policy extensions to LDAP schemas have been defined and work continues to define specific schema extension for QoS and security policies. o The Common Open Policy Service (COPS) [RFC2748] protocol has been extended to provision configuration information on devices (COPS- PR) [RFC3084]. Work is underway to define data definitions for specific services such as Differentiated Services (DiffServ). Schoenwaelder Informational [Page 2] RFC 3535 IAB Network Management Workshop May 2003 During 2001, several meetings have been organized at various events (NANOG-22 May 2001, RIPE-40 October 2001, LISA-XV December 2001, IETF-52 December 2001) to start a direct dialog between network operators and protocol developers. During these meetings, several operators have expressed their opinion that the developments in the IETF do not really address their requirements, especially for configuration management. This naturally leads to the question of whether the IETF should refocus resources, and which strategic future activities in the operations and management area should be started. The Internet Architecture Board (IAB), on June 4 thru June 6, 2002, held an invitational workshop on network management. The goal of the workshop was to continue the important dialog started between network operators and protocol developers, and to guide the IETFs focus onShow full document text