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PART 2 of 2
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - FAQ
Simple Network Management Protocol
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>We have begun making this FAQ more of a WWW tool by including more URLs.
> New books from Bill Stallings and Leinwand-and-Fang.
> Some stuff about SNMPv1.5 (or, SNMPv2* if you prefer)
> Miscellaneous corrections submitted by readers.
Note on host names and addresses: please email me with any changes
to host names and IP addresses. The MIT host rtfm has an autoresponder
which always replies to postings with an incorrect IP. It would be
nice if every host had that, but they don't, so I need your assistance.
~Subject: TABLE OF CONTENTS
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FAQ PART 1 of 2: NOT IN THIS DOCUMENT
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@0. What is the purpose of this FAQ?
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@0.1 Where can I Obtain This FAQ?
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@I. General Questions about SNMP and SNMPv2
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@1. What is SNMP?
@2. What is an RFC?
@3. Where can I get RFC text?
@4. What books are there which cover SNMP?
@5. What periodicals are heavily oriented to SNMP?
@6. What classes are available on the topic of SNMP?
@7. Who are some leading authorities of SNMP?
@8. What discussion groups are available for SNMP?
@9. What trade shows cater to SNMP?
@10. What SNMP product User Groups are available.
@11. Where can I find SNMP-related material on WWW?
@20. What is SNMPv2?
@20a. What is SNMPv2*/SNMPv1+/SNMPv1.5?
@30. What is RMON?
@31. RMON Standardization Status
@32. RMON Working Group.
@33. Joining the RMON Working Group Mailing List
@34. Historical RMON Records
@35. RMON Documents
@39. What is ISODE?
@39a. Where can I get ISODE?
FAQ PART 2 of 2:
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@40. What is CMIP?
@41. What books should I read about CMIP?
@50. What is OMNIPoint?
@II. SNMP Software and Related Products
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@1. Where can I get SNMP software?
@2. What CMIP software is available?
@III. MIBS
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@1. What is a MIB?
@2. What are MIB-I and MIB-II
@3. What are enterprise MIBs?
@4. Where can I get enterprise MIBs?
@5. How can I register an enterprise MIB?
@5a. Where can I find the current Enterprise Number Assignments?
@6. What is the SMI?
@7. What is ASN.1?
@Appendix A. Glossary
@Appendix B. Acknowledgements & Credits
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@40.
~Subject: What is CMIP?
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YES, we do need to mention it here!
Paul Rolland writes from France:
"CMIP is the Common Management Information Protocol. It is an OSI
protocol that has been defined for Network Management. It comes
together with the CMIS (Commom Management Information Service).
This service provides :
monitoring: in this case, you are using CMIP to gain information,
control: you can manipulate objects that you manage,
reporting: Managed objects can tell you something wrong is
happening."
@41.
~Subject: What books should I read about CMIP?
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The collected OSI specifications are of sufficient bulk
to sink a small craft in calm waters. Start easy:
A. The Open Book: A Practical Perspective on OSI
by: Marshall T. Rose
ISBN 0-13-643016-3
(c) 1990 Prentice-Hall, Inc
B. Open Systems Networking: OSI & TCP/IP
by: David Piscitello & A. L. Chapin
ISBN 0-201-56334-7
(c) 1993 Addison-Wesley
C. SNMP, SNMPv2 and CMIP: The Practical Guide to
Network Management Standards
by: William Stallings
ISBN 0-201-63331-0
(c) 1993 Addison-Wesley Publishing Co, Inc
42 - 49 Reserved
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@50.
~Subject: What is OMNIPoint?
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"A common approach to the integrated management of
networked information systems."
In practical terms, a vehicle for helping to bridge
the standards gap between SNMP and OSI/CMIP so that
the end user customer can reap the benefits of both.
A product of the:
Network Management Forum
40 Morristown Road
Bernardsville, NJ 07924
Ph: 908-766-1544
Fx: 908-766-5741
A catalog of products is available.
@II.
~Subject: SNMP Software and Related Products
@1.
~Subject: Where can I get SNMP software?
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A. Public Domain:
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a. Carnegie-Mellon University
4910 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
ftp from lancaster.andrew.cmu.edu (128.2.13.21)
both SNMP and SNMPv2 are available.
> ***** IMPORTANT *****
> This server is now known as FTP.NET.CMU.EDU. Please connect to that
> hostname. In the near future, the anonymous server will no longer be
> associated with LANCASTER.ANDREW.CMU.EDU so connections there will not
> work.
There is no FAQ, and CMU does not generally answer
questions about their software. There are man pages
in the tar file, and the code is well documented
and easy to follow.
b. MIT
Cambridge, Massachusetts
ftp from thyme.lcs.mit.edu at /pub/snmp (18.26.0.115)
c. Christophe Meessen writes:
>I've put a small package on a ftp server that relates to SNMP.
>It is a minimal set of BER assembling/disassembling primitives
>needed to implement SNMPv1 or SNMPv2.
>BER compilation primitives compile in reverse. That is they compile
>from the last byte toward the first byte. This result in the
>simplest BER compilation code.
>The exact path is ftp.in2p3.fr (134.158.69.153) /pub/snmp/ber
d. NAS HNMS (NAS Hierarchical Network Management System)
[What follows is a much-edited post from Jude A. George]
HNMS is the NAS Hierarchical Management System -- an SNMP- and
X Windows- based software package for monitoring large,
heterogeneous IP networks.
[.. deletions here by Editor.. ]
VERSION 2.0c3
NOTICE There is a version of the software that we sent to COSMIC,
which is NASA's technology transfer organization at the
University of Georgia. As of yet, COSMIC is still putting
together their distribution.
Anyone can get a copy of HNMS v2.0c3 directly from COSMIC,
and expand/revise/modify/redistribute it. However, if you do
redistribute it, the following provisions are in effect:
You MAY NOT: make minor changes and re-release the entire
package with your own copyright.
You MAY: make make minor changes and copyright only
the changes.
You MAY: make major ( > 50% ) changes, and copyright
the whole work.
[.. deletions here by Editor.. ]
For sample screen snapshots, try the following in your favorite
WWW viewer:
ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/heyjude/SCREEN1.gif
ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/heyjude/SCREEN2.gif
There is an HNMS mailing list, maintained by Jason Thorpe at Oregon
State University. To subscribe to the list, send mail to
majordomo@maillist.cs.orst.edu,
[ message body ]
subscribe hnms-users [your e-mail address, optional]
For help, send the message body 'help'. Questions about the list may
be sent to owner-hnms-users@maillist.cs.orst.edu.
e. The UT-SNMP projectgroup
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description: Currently, we are building version 4 of the
UT-SNMP package. In this new version we initialize
the PartyMIB by a configuration file(s). The layout
of this initialization file is defined and described
in the "SNMPv2 Administrative Configuration Proposal"
by Dave Perkins and John Seligson (Synoptics).
Some projectmembers have made software to
create those configuration file(s) in a very
convenient manner. The software asks some simple
questions and depending on the input generates the
initialization file(s).
package: UT-PERKINS-1_0.tar.Z
programmers: Martijn Visser & Erwin Bonsma.
postal: The UT-SNMP projectgroup
Tele-Informatics and Open Systems Group
Department of Computer Science
P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
voice: +31 53 894099
email: snmp@cs.utwente.nl
www:
http://snmp.cs.uwtente.nl/General/snmp-faq.html
ftp:
ftp://ftp.cs.utwente.nl:/pub/src/snmp
f. The tkined & scotty network management system
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The Technical University of Braunschweig has developed an
extensible network management platform which uses the
Tool Command Language (Tcl) as its primary extensions
language.
The tkined network editor is the graphical user interface
which integrates applications that are usually written as
Tcl scripts based on the scotty Tcl extension. scotty provides
access to SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 and a number of well known
Internet services like DNS, various ICMP packets, NTP, TCP,
UDP, SUN RPCs (mount, rstat, portmap) etc.
Applications distributed with the scotty and tkined sources
include network discovery, trouble-shooting applications,
event filter, SNMP MIB browser etc. An experimental MIB
browser is also available via WWW using the URL:
http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/ibr/cgi-bin/sbrowser.cgi
The SNMP Tcl extension uses a SNMPv1/v2 protocol stack written
from scratch which was designed to directly support our Tcl
API. This provides a portable and fast implementation. A brief
history on SNMP Tcl extension is available using the URL:
http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/ibr/projects/nm/scotty/tcl+snmp.html
Information about the current status of the project, the
mailing list and the availability of our software can be
found at:
http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/ibr/projects/nm/tkined/
http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/ibr/projects/nm/scotty/
g. SNMPt and the WILMA package
SNMPt-1.4 (Toolkit kernel)
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- *FULL* documentation in *ENGLISH* (about 130 pages)
- compiles on HP, SUN4.1.3, LINUX, AIX
- includes the counters of the snmp group of the MIB-II
- source for 'barefoot' manager commands:
+ snmpget
+ snmpset
+ snmpnext
+ snmpwalk
+ snmptrap
- error handling improved
- goodies: TCP and TELNET support for client/server management
MibCompiler-1.2 (ASN.1 compiler kernel)
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- precompiled versions available for
+ HP/UX 9.0 (MC680x0, HP-PA)
+ Linux
SimAgent-1.1 (Agent simulator for test purposes)
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- uses MibCompiler-1.2
mibc-1.2 (MIB compiler)
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- some bugs have been removed
- compatible with SNMPt-1.4
snmpm-3.2 (MIB browser)
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- new layout of the windows
- menu always visible
- 'find' function
- can send SET REQUESTS
- merges and displays MIBs found on agents and on the compiler
- now ANSI-C source
- many bugs have been removed
mibII-1.1 (MIB-II agent)
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- uses SNMPt-1.4
- now, two groups of the standard are supported
(some others still missing - sorry)
Xldv-1.2 (widgets)
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- fully ANSI-C
- use mmak-5.2
SMI-1.0 (ASN.1 definitions for MIBs)
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- header files for mibc
- some ASN.1 sources of MIBs
mmak-5.2 (multiplatform project manager and makefile generator)
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- some bugs have been removed
- recursively scans for #include "xxx.h"
- supports new platform names
+ hp.pa
+ hp.68k
+ sun
+ linux
+ aix
- supports an improved version and release management system
- knows .asn1 files and mibc
The new releases are available on our ftp server using the standard
anonymous ftp access (XMosaic access is supported partially by HTML files!).
ftp://ftp.ldv.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de:/dist/WILMA
For installation read the INSTALLATION_INSTRUCTIONS.html document.
You may also be interested in what is COMING_SOON.html.
For questions and comments, send E-Mail to
wilma@ldv.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de
i. (from Mark Wallace)
The comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc faq had this info on a DOS SNMP
monitor package:
Downright Speculation
SNMP monitor Free
Available at
file://sun.soe.clarkson.edu/pub/packet-drivers/snmpsrc.zip.
Also available at
file://enh.nist.gov/misc/snmpsrc.zip, snmpsup.zip,snmpsun.tar_Z.
j. from UC Davis (see FTP list in Part 1 )
k. from pwilson:
New portable SNMP agent distribution is available under GPL.
We call it snmp95. It is available for anonymous ftp from
ftp://ftp.std.com/vendors/snmp/snmp95/snmp95.tar.Z
As well as number of other products named xxxx95 it is rather
a transtional product representing current intermediate state
of SNMPv1 -> SNMPv2 transition.
First, let me describe what is there.
1. It is bi-lingual SNMPv1/SNMPv2 implementation based on the
recent drafts, which will change along with draft changes.
2. It includes two agents: base agent which will compile and run
on all kinds of UNIXes, but without MIB-II and agent which will
compile and run on SVR4/386 UNIX. Latter one has driver/kernel
based (Karl are you reading ?) implementation of MIB-II for streams
based TCP/IP.
3. Long time ago the thing was started from CMU-SNMP code, so it still
shares common philosophy and some familiar names. At the same time
basic SNMP library has error detection/reporting added to fully
support new errors required by SNMPv2. Agent to MIB interface
is also improved - MIBs can be hooked on the agent as binary modules.
4. The general design philosophy is to have a predictable minimal load
on the underlying managed system from SNMP agent (e.g. agent does not
use malloc's) while providing commercial level of capabilities: binary
extensibility, fully implemented SETs and error-code support.
5. Admin/security portion of the code is separated from the rest of the
code. So, if any new admin models will surface no changes in MIB or
agent code will be required, unless some creative statistics will
be stacked in.
6. Code is extremely portable. Practically 99% of system dependent
code is contained within driver itself. I do not think that it
will take more than a couple of days to port it to something else.
7. Simple community based admin model codes are provided. An absolutely
trivial one with base agent and a little bit more sophisticated
with svr4x86 one.
8. Code is lightly tested in the respect that it will perform gets and
get-nexts on all variables in MIB-II, supported by underlying system.
It will also perform SETs on all read-write variables in MIB-II and
in ipForwardTable, except tcpConnState. What was not tested yet is that
phase1 one of SET will reject absolutely all thinkable wrong routes
without allowing for commit phase to take place: there is practically
unlimited number of wrong routes. So, we tested against some most evident
wrong ones but this is not finished yet.
ralex@world.std.com
pwilson@world.std.com
l. ISODE -- see section 39 in Part 1 of this FAQ
B. Proprietary:
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a. SNMP Research
3001 Kimberlin Heights Road
Knoxville, TN 37920-9716
Ph: 615-573-1434
Fx: 615-573-9197
Email: John Southwood, john@snmp.com
SNMP agents, extensible agents, managers, tools, etc.
In Europe:
SNMP Research International, Inc
David Partain, Managing Director
Teknikringen 1
S-583 30 Linkoping
Sweden
Fax/Phone +46 13 21 18 81
EMail: partain@europe.snmp.com
WWW Sites:
http://www.int.snmp.com
http://www.snmp.com
b. Epilogue Technology Corp.
11116 Desert Classic Lane
Albuquerque, NM 87111
"Envoy(tm), Emissary, Attache, Attache Plus, Ambassador:
Portable SNMPv1 & SNMPv2 agent/manager, MIB Compiler,
UDP/IP & TCP/IP protocol stacks, RMON agent"
Ph: +1-805-650-7107 or (505) 271-9933
Fax: +1-805-650-7108 or (505) 271-9798
Email: David Preston, djp@epilogue.com
Australasian/Pacific Rim Distributor
Internode Systems Pty Ltd
414 Goodwood Road, PO Box 69, Daw Park SA 5041 Australia
Email: Simon Hackett, simon@internode.com.au [Technical]
Sales Folk, sales@internode.com.au [Sales]
Ph: +61-8-373-1020
Fax: +61-8-373-4911
c. PEER Networks
1190 Saratoga Avenue, suite 130,
San Jose, Ca. 95129-34433
Phone 408-556-0720
Fax 408-556-0735
EMAIL sales@peer.com
Providers of [in their words] ...
"OPTIMA, the multi-protocol, multi-vendor SNMP solution. Includes
open, configurable protocols and powerful development tools."
d. Paul Freeman Associates, Inc.
14 Pleasant St., P. O. Box 2067
Westford, MA 01886-5067
Voice: 508-692-4436
Email: pwilson@world.std.com
"Universal SNMP Agent (tm): extensible and portable V1+V2
agent in source form for installation on any platform, under
any OS, with any transport. Also available as drop-in binary
with MIB-II for SVR4."
e. [Reference Deleted]
f. NetPort
(408) 257-4907 Voice:
jbartas@sunlight.com email
"NetPort is a vendor of portable SNMP agents & protocol
stacks, and we also provide SNMP consulting services.
Also, we will be releasing a series of DOS utilitys as
freeware (executables will be available for free) in a few
weeks. Call for details. "
[EDITOR'S NOTE: SOMEONE WHO TRIED TO CONTACT NetPort
ABOUT THEIR OFFERING COULD NOT SUCCEED. NetPort MAY BE
DEFUNCT.]
g. Empire Technologies, Inc.
500 Northside Circle, NW Suite D7
Atlanta, GA 30309-2100
Ph: 404-350-0107
Fx: 404-351-3638
Email: Cheryl Krupczak, cheryl@empiretech.com
MIB Manager(tm) X/Windows NMS tool, Agents for UNIX
Systems Management and Host Resources MIB, and base
SNMP agent source code.
h. FTP Software
Contact Sales at
(800) 282-4387,
EMail to info@ftp.com
Web server at http://www.ftp.com.
PC/SNMP Tools is a basic, inexpensive Network Management
Station software package for DOS PCs. You can build custom
applications over PC/SNMP Tools using the the SNMP libraries
in the PC/TCP / OnNet Development Kit.
i. DMH Software (contact Yigal Hochberg)
e-mail: 72144.3704@compuserve.com
10 Village Lane #6 Tyngsboro, MA 01879
"1. Advanced portable SNMP Agent engine designed for
any "hosting-system", with MIB compiler. Highly portable
UDP/IP stack, TCP, TELNET, TFTP, BOOTP, RARP.
2. A CMU based SNMP Agent portable engine changed and redesigned
for any "hosting-system". Based on the popular core of the known
CMU SNMP Agent, includes many improvements. Inexpensive
solution.
3. DOS based SNMP Manager for SNMP developers. In addition to SNMP
also includes ping, udp-echo and cookie client. Available as a
executables or developer tool-kit."
j. Castle Rock Computing
20863 Stevens Creek Blvd
Cupertino, CA 95014
408-366-6540 or 1-800-331-SNMP
SNMPc is a full-featured SNMP Manager for Windows 3.1
k. The SNMP WorkShop
P.O. Box 3949
Danbury, CT 06813-3949
Voice: 800-731-SNMP [7667]
or: 203-746-0753
Fax: 610-992-1909
Email: snmpshop@ix.netcom.com
"SNMP Edge is an add-on set of utilities for
use with SNMPc, NETMON for Windows, Sun Net Manager,
HP OpenView or IBM Netview 6000.
The WorkShop also sells SNMP products via a direct
channel. Call, Email or write for a catalog."
C. General:
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[NOTE: ALSO SEE BRUCE'S HUGH FTP LIST IN PART 1.]
Bruce Barnett writes:
>Here is my list of authoritative sites for SNMP source code....
>In particular, the MIB II version of CMU's code is available on
ftp://ftp.near.net:/pub/cmu-snmp1.2u.tar.Z
>and
ftp://munnari.OZ.AU:pub/cmu-mu-snmp1.5.tar.Z
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SNMP Archives summary. Maintained by Bruce Barnett
The following are FTP sites for various packages...
lancaster.andrew.cmu.edu:/pub/snmp-dist/*
snmp2.1.2.tar
CMU SNMP v2 source (Library, agent, mid-level agent,
Tcl/Tk interface, net management routines)
> ***** IMPORTANT *****
> This server is now known as FTP.NET.CMU.EDU. Please connect to that
> hostname. In the near future, the anonymous server will no longer be
> associated with LANCASTER.ANDREW.CMU.EDU so connections there will not
> work.
ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu:mrose/isode-snmpV2/isode-snmpV2.tar.Z
4BSD/ISODE 8.0 SNMPv2 package
ftp://dnpap.et.tudelft.nl:/pub/btng
Contains:
RMON agent for OS/2, SunOS 4.1.X, & Ultrix 4.1
Tricklet (Perl-based SNMP tool for Unix or OS/2)
ftp://nic.nikhef.nl:~ftp/pub/monet/monet-0.10.tar.Z
Xmonet network monitoring tools
ftp://ftp.synoptics.com:/eng/mibcompiler/src.tar.Z
SMIC - MIB Compiler
ftp://ftp.synoptics.com:/eng/mibcompiler/mibs.tar.Z -
Public MIBS
ftp://munnari.OZ.AU:pub/cmu-mu-snmp1.5.tar.Z
MIB-II enhancements to CMU's SNMPv1 AP
ftp://ftp.cs.ubc.ca:/pub/local/src/snacc
SNACC - MIB compiler with MIB-II Macros and C, C++ BER
routines.
ftp://venera.isi.edu:/ftp/mib various
Public MIBS
ftp://ftp.cisco.com:
MIBS for CISCO routers
ftp://ftp.near.net:/pub/cmu-snmp1.2u.tar.Z -
Version 1.2(Unofficial) CMU SNMP code. MIB-II support
ftp://zippy.telcom.arizona.edu:/pub/snm/agents/*
Schema and oid for SunNet Manager
ftp://ptt.lcs.mit.edu:/pub/snmp
- MIT SNMP code - MIB-II
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com:/private/mib
- Source of MIBs for DEC products.
ftp://nexus.yorku.ca:~/pub/tcl_snmp
Tcl/Tk interface to SNMP
ftp://ctron.com:/pub/management/mibs
- Cabletron MIBS
loki.oar.net:/pub/xnetdb - Xnetdb "A network database and monitoring
tool" by henryc@oar.net
X-based network monitoring system with an integrated database
which uses SNMP and PING to graphically display the state of
the network.
ftp://ftp.jvnc.net:jvncnet-packages/nocol/NOCOL
- Network Operations Center
OnLine
From: aggarwal@nisc.jvnc.net (Vikas Aggarwal)
NOCOL (NOC-On Line) is a network monitoring package for TCP/IP
networks. Has monitors for reachability, SNMP traps,