NETF Network Management WG Minutes of the meeting in Copenhagen at 1991-10-04 1. Administrativia Chair: Harri.K.Salminen@funet.fi Secretary: Pekka.Kytolaakso@venus.csc.fi Others: Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no Jyrki.Soini@funet.fi Klaus Hansen khan@diku.dk Bernhard Stockman boss@sunet.se Olav.Kvittem@delab.sintef.no 2. Minutes of last meeting No comments. 3. News and Reports We had a discussion on the latest news/reports on SNMP management software - Computerworld May 27: SNMP product report - Long discussion on: SNMP Protocol: Bulk data transfer seen as a problem when trying to get a snapshot of the routing tables for example. Reading whole rows at a time helps a bit. Adding more state to snmp agents or making other major changes to SNMP protocol seen as almost impossible now. ISO CMIP: Nobody had seen it in production use yet. DEC is supposed to have it in Phase V DECNET although they are also promising SNMP MIBs. Application layer MIB (Toasternet B-): It might be nice to be able to manage applications using a MIB altough defining a good one might be complex task. First priority could be network applications like DNS, NJE, mailers, nntp/netnews etc. 4. Network Management Product Evaluation Harri Salminen has written a draft product evaluation form to gather information of snmp manager software. The preliminary evaluation format by was discussed and edited and Harri will post a revised version of the form to the netman list. The form will be given to RIPE and IETF contacts for comments. When we get the comments we revise it once more and then start using it to collect information when evaluating Network Management Systems. Plan is that interested people use the form and then preferably send the results to a common collection point. Choosing a product can then be made easier by filling up local priorities and requirements in a form and then comparing different evaluation results to filter out products that don't fill the local requirements. 5. Requirements for different network management scenarios - central control - distributed inside a NOC - co-operation between NOCs - client just monitoring Q.O.S. (Quality of Service) What to manage? How to make sure what Q.O.S you get from network provider? How to share information? How to define management boundaries - close and overlapping like nordunet/nordic countries - strict boundaries like users vs. PTTs How to exchange reports/trouble tickets? No consensus on what to do. There's some IETF work done on these? 6. What next No time and energy to think of new ideas this time at least. Better get the NMS evaluation going than trying to do too many things.