Entity MIB (entmib) ------------------- Charter Current status: active working group Chair(s): Keith McCloghrie Network Management Area Director(s): Deirdre Kostick Mailing lists: General Discussion:entmib@cisco.com To Subscribe: majordomo@cisco.com In Body: subscribe entmib your_email_address Archive: ftp://ftp.cisco.com/entmib/entmib Description of Working Group: The goal of this working group is to standardize a set of managed objects representing logical and physical entities and the relationships between them. Logical entities can occur when a single agent supports multiple instances of one MIB, such as RFCs 1253, 1493, 1516 or 1525, where each instance represents a single (logical) device/entity. Physical entities are the actual physical components on which the logical entities operate; typically, the physical components exist in a hierarchy. The set of objects will be consistent with the SNMP framework and existing SNMP standards. The scope of this MIB should allow an NMS to interrogate a standard SNMP context and thereby discover what logical and physical entities exist, how to access the MIB information of each logical entity, and the relationships between the various entities. The MIB should support both a single agent or multiple agents in one physical entity. The Working Group should adopt a minimalist approach for the (initial) MIB so as to maximize the chance of success, e.g., read-only. Goals and Milestones: Done Post Internet-Draft for Entity MIB. Done Hold BOF at Stockholm IETF. Dec 95 Meet at Dallas IETF to review Internet-Draft and the issues raised during mailing list discussion. Jan 96 Post updated Entity MIB Internet-Draft. Mar 96 Meet at IETF to reach consensus on updated Internet-Draft. Apr 96 Submit final version of Internet-Draft for consideration as a Proposed Standard. Internet-Drafts: Posted Revised I-D Title ------ ------- ------------------------------------------ Jun 95 Apr 96 Entity MIB Request For Comments: None to date.