From dave@WIZARD.FAC.CORNELL.EDU Wed May 6 18:33:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: from postoffice2.mail.cornell.edu (POSTOFFICE2.MAIL.CORNELL.EDU [132.236.56.10]) by wizard.fm.cornell.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA22835 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 18:33:09 -0400 Received: from mail.fm.cornell.edu (CAPELLA.FM.CORNELL.EDU [128.253.92.64]) by postoffice2.mail.cornell.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA08852 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 18:33:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3550E4C9.8489EF5D@mail.fm.cornell.edu> Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 18:31:37 -0400 From: dave w capella Organization: Cornell University Facilities Management X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dave@WIZARD.FAC.CORNELL.EDU Subject: snmp faq Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------CB2B1006784C1C8209624121" Status: R This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------CB2B1006784C1C8209624121 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://webserver.snmp.com/FAQs/snmp-faq-part2.txt -- +---------------------+------------------------------------------------+ |dave w capella | It's kind of fun to do the impossible.- Disney | |Facilities Management| mailto:dave.capella@cornell.edu \\|// | |Cornell University | http://wizard.fm.cornell.edu/ (O O) | +----------------------------------------------------------oOo-(_)-oOo-+ --------------CB2B1006784C1C8209624121 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="snmp-faq-part2.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="snmp-faq-part2.txt" comp.protocols.snmp SNMP FAQ Part 2 of 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: splinter@panix.com (Tom Cikoski) Subject: comp.protocols.snmp SNMP FAQ Part 2 of 2 Date: 01 Mar 1998 Organization: The SNMP WorkShop/Panther Digital Corp, Danbury, Connecticut USA Summary: Introduction to SNMP & comp.protocols.snmp newsgroup ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive-name: snmp-faq/part2 Posting-Frequency: monthly (more-or-less) Last-Modified: 1 Mar 98 Version: 2.33 comp.protocols.snmp ------------------- PART 2 of 2 FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - FAQ Simple Network Management Protocol ---------------------------------- This 2-part document is provided as a service by and for the readers and droogs of Internet USENET news group comp.protocols.snmp and may be used for research and educational purposes only. Any commercial use of the text may be in violation of copyright laws under the terms of the Berne Convention. My lawyer can whup your lawyer. Anthology Edition Copyright 1997, Thomas R. Cikoski, All Rights Reserved ------------------------------------------------------------ Please feel free to EMail corrections, enhancements, and/or additions to the Reply-To address, above. Your input will receive full credit in this FAQ unless you request otherwise. mailto:splinter@panix.com As a result of the abuses of EMail now taking place on the Internet, we have a policy of NOT providing the EMail address of individual contributors in these postings. We will continue continue to provide EMail addresses of commercial contributors unless requested not to. ------------------------------------------------------------- A NOTE ON WEB SITES AND URLS Neither the contributors nor the editor of this FAQ are responsible for the stability or accuracy of any URL, Web site address, or EMail address listed herein. We take reasonable care to ensure that these data are transcribed correctly and are always open to correction. If, however, a particular URL disappears from the Web there is not much we can do about it. ------------------------------------------------------------ Please also visit our cousin newsgroup: news://comp.dcom.net-management. New this month: --------------- > 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 ----------------- FAQ PART 1 of 2: >>>>> NOT IN THIS DOCUMENT ---------------- -------------------------- @0. What is the purpose of this FAQ? -------------------------------------- @0.1 Where can I Obtain This FAQ? ------------------------------------ @I. General Questions about SNMP and SNMPv2 ------------------------------------------- @1. What is SNMP? @1a. How does an Agent know where to send a Trap? @1b. How can I remotely manage community strings? @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? @12. What related mailing lists exist? @13. SNMP and Autodiscovery ----------------------- @20. What is SNMPv2? @20a. What is SNMPv2*/SNMPv1+/SNMPv1.5? @21. SNMP and/versus The Web @22. SNMP and Java @25. What is SNMP V3? @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: ----------- @40. What is CMIP? @41. What books should I read about CMIP? @50. What is OMNIPoint? @II. SNMP Software and Related Products ---------------------------------------- @1. Where can I get Public Domain SNMP software? @2. Where can I get Proprietary SNMP software? @3. Where can I get SNMP Shareware? @4. Miscellaneous FTP Sources @10. What CMIP software is available? @11. SNMP and Windows NT/95 @12. More About CMU SNMP Software @13. Miscellaneous SNMP-related Products @14. SNMP and OS/2 @III. MIBS ----------- @1. What is a MIB? @2. What are MIB-I and MIB-II @2a. How do I convert SNMP V1 to SNMP V2 MIBs? @3. What are enterprise MIBs? @4. Where can I get enterprise MIBs? @4a. How can I get ______ from the _____ MIB? @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 BEGIN PART 2: =========== @40. ~Subject: What is CMIP? ---------------- 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? --------------------------------------- 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 ---------------- @50. ~Subject: What is OMNIPoint? --------------------------- "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 Public Domain SNMP software? ------------------------------------------------------ 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://thyme.lcs.mit.edu "look in /pub/snmp" 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.. ] [How to get to COSMIC: http://www.cosmic.uga.edu/pub/hnms.info.shtml] For sample screen snapshots, try the following in your favorite WWW viewer: ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/he/heyjude/SCREEN1.gif ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/he/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. [Editor's note: We received this via EMAIL ... "HNMS seems not to be free software. Andreas Rittershofer D-72555 Metzingen Germany" ... so, let the buyer beware...] e. The UT-SNMP projectgroup --------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------ 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/ [Editor's note: Holger Trapp has informed me that all of the above URL's for tkined & scotty should be replaced by http://wwwsnmp.cs.utwente.nl/~schoenw/scotty/ Thanks, Holger!] g. SNMPt and the WILMA package -------------------------------- SNMPt-1.4 (Toolkit kernel) -------------------------- - *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) --------------------------------------- - precompiled versions available for + HP/UX 9.0 (MC680x0, HP-PA) + Linux SimAgent-1.1 (Agent simulator for test purposes) ------------------------------------------------ - uses MibCompiler-1.2 mibc-1.2 (MIB compiler) ----------------------- - some bugs have been removed - compatible with SNMPt-1.4 snmpm-3.2 (MIB browser) ----------------------- - 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) ------------------------ - uses SNMPt-1.4 - now, two groups of the standard are supported (some others still missing - sorry) Xldv-1.2 (widgets) ------------------ - fully ANSI-C - use mmak-5.2 SMI-1.0 (ASN.1 definitions for MIBs) ------------------------------------ - header files for mibc - some ASN.1 sources of MIBs mmak-5.2 (multiplatform project manager and makefile generator) --------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 & Wes Hardaker (see FTP list in Part 1 ) -------------------------------- After a lot of work, ucd-snmp-3.3 is finally ready for release. The number of contributers to the project has been growing by leaps and bounds, and I thank them all for their work. You can get it from: - ftp://ftp.ece.ucdavis.edu/pub/snmp/ucd-snmp.tar.gz and shortly from the European mirror: - ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/ucd-snmp/ucd-snmp.tar.gz Excerpts from the NEWS file are included below. Please see the ChangeLog file for more specific details. Make sure you note that the installation paths have changed slightly for the mib files directory and for the expected location of the snmpd.conf files. Wes Hardaker General info ------------ Subcription/unsubscription/info requests should always be sent to the -request address of a mailinglist. In this case, send these requests to ucd-snmp-request@ece.ucdavis.edu. To subscribe to a mailinglist, simply send a message with the word "subscribe" in the Subject: field to the -request address of that list. To unsubscribe from a mailinglist, simply send a message with the word (you guessed it :-) "unsubscribe" in the Subject: field to the -request address of that list. In the event of an address change, it would probably be the wisest to first send an unsubscribe for the old address (this can be done from the new address), and then a new subscribe to the new address (the order is important). Most (un)subscription requests are processed automatically without human intervention. Do not send multiple (un)subscription or info requests in one mail. Only one will be processed per mail. NOTE: The -request server usually does quite a good job in discriminating between (un)subscribe requests and messages intended for the maintainer. If you'd like to make sure a human reads your message, make it look like a reply (i.e. the first word in the Subject: field should be "Re:", without the quotes of course); the -request server does not react to replies. The archive server ------------------ The last 40 submissions to this list are archived for your convience. You can look at the header of every mail coming from this list to see under what name it has been archived. The X-Mailing-List: field contains the mailaddress of the list and the file in which this submission was archived. If you want to access this archive, you have to send mails to the -request address with the word "archive" as the first word of your Subject:. To get you started try sending a mail to the -request address with the following: Subject: archive help 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 ------------------------------------------------- m. SNMP++ -- An SNMP API Class Library: --------------------------------------- SNMP++ Revision 2.5 =================================================================== I am pleased to announce the completion of the new SNMP++ specification. Over the last year SNMP++ has gone from a version 1 specification, which was presented at a Birds-of-a-Feather at Networld-Interop '95, to the currently available 2.5 revision. The new specification is freely available on the following FTP server. Where to Find the New Specification and Header Files: ------------------------------------------------------------------ FTP Server Name: rosegarden.external.hp.com (192.151.46.12) Login: anonymous Files /pub/snmp++/doc snmp_pp.doc (MS-Word 6-7 Format) snmp_pp.ps (Postscript version) /pub/snmp++/include *.h (C++ class definitions) Intent: ------------------------------------------------------------------- The intent of the publication of this specification is to make SNMP++ an open specification as a C++ based SNMP API and as a C++ extension to WinSNMP. All developers are encouraged to review the specification and all comments and suggestions are welcome. What is SNMP++: ------------------------------------------------------------------- SNMP++ is a set of C++ classes which provide SNMP services to a network management application developer. SNMP++ is not an additional layer or wrapper over existing SNMP engines. SNMP++ utilizes existing SNMP libraries in a few minimized areas and in doing so is efficient and portable. SNMP++ is not meant to replace other existing SNMP APIs such as WinSNMP, rather it offers power and flexibility would otherwise be difficult to manage and implement. SNMP++ brings the Object Advantage to network management development. Evolution and Development of SNMP++: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Over the last year, SNMP++ has been designed and created by a variety of professionals in the network management industry including major involvement from Hewlett Packard Company OpenView Division and Hewlett Packard Company Roseville Networks Division. In addition to involvement from the HP Company, a variety of experts within the WinSNMP community have have made significant contributions to formulating the the current SNMP++ API. SNMP++ has been successfully utilized in over ten network management products for MS-Windows, HP-UX and Sun / Solaris. When Will Working Binaries be Available For Usage? ------------------------------------------------------------------- The new specification and C++ class definitions are currently available on the above described anonymous FTP server. Soon to come will be MS-Windows 32 bit binaries and working demonstration code. Binaries released will be in an un-supported 'as is' form. The intent of the binary release will be to allow usage and testing and thereby increase implementation experience using SNMP++. ~From: Peter E Mellquist mailto:mellqust@hprnd.rose.hp.com ==== n. SNMP Management Proxy Server The SNMP Management Proxy Server is a platform independent web-browser based client/server system for SNMP based report generation. The source code is available on request and without fee. The SNMP Management Proxy Server is a platform independent web-browser based client/server system for SNMP based report generation. The new version 2.6 is now available. An online demo is running at http://aleppo.ira.uka.de/nwm You can get the source code from http://i31www.ira.uka.de/~sd/manager (For the installation you will also need scotty-tcl) Sven Doerr http://i31www.ira.uka.de/~sd @2. ~Subject: Where can I get Proprietary SNMP software? ------------------------------------------------------ a. SNMP Research International, Inc. 3001 Kimberlin Heights Road Knoxville, TN 37920-9716 Ph: 423-579-3311 Fx: 423-579-6565 Sales: John Southwood mailto:info@int.snmp.com http://www.int.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 mailto:partain@europe.snmp.com http://www.int.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, mailto:djp@epilogue.com http://www.epilogue.com Australasian/Pacific Rim Distributor Internode Systems Pty Ltd 414 Goodwood Road, PO Box 69, Daw Park SA 5041 Australia Email: Simon Hackett, mailto:simon@internode.com.au [Technical] Sales Folk, mailto:sales@internode.com.au [Sales] Ph: +61-8-373-1020 Fax: +61-8-373-4911 c. PEER Networks [has been sold to BMC Software] -- SEE SECTION t. BELOW -- d. Paul Freeman Associates, Inc. 14 Pleasant St., P. O. Box 2067 Westford, MA 01886-5067 Voice: 800-PFA-WESA (800-732-9372) or 508-692-4436 mailto:pwilson@world.std.com WWW : http://world.std.com/~pfa "Complete Host-Resources MIB (rfc1514) Extension Agent for Windows NT and Win95, in DLL form, priced $5.00 per seat. "Win 3.1 Extensible SNMP Agent -- WESA(tm): open, extensible V1+V2C Agent for Win3.1; and accompanying complete Host- Resources MIB. Each priced $5.00 per seat. "Open SNMP Agent(tm) for real-time OSs: open, extensible, portable V1+V2C agent in source form for embedded systems under any RTOS. Variously priced, always less than $8000. "Open SNMP Agent(tm) for Unix: open, extensible, portable v1+V2C agent in source or binary (snmpd) form for any Unix or variant. Binary MIB-II for SVR4-like OSs." e. [Reference Deleted] f. [Reference Deleted] g. Empire Technologies, Inc. 500 Northside Circle, NW Suite D7 Atlanta, GA 30309-2100 Ph: 404-350-0107 Fx: 404-351-3638 Cheryl Krupczak, mailto: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. Precision Guesswork, Inc (Note: replaces entry for FTP Software) Contact Sales at phone: (508) 887-6570, fax: (508) 887-6552 mailto:info@precision.guesswork.com Web server at http://www.guesswork.com. SNMPTools is a basic, inexpensive Network Management Station software package for PCs. The current version runs over FTP Software's 16 bit DOS IP stack, a Win95 version is currently in Alpha Testing. i. DMH Software (please contact Yigal Hochberg) Voice: 978-649-5605 Fax: 978-649-2578 mailto:hochberg@concentric.net http://www.concentric.net/~hochberg/dmh.html 1. Advanced portable SNMP-Agent designed for any "hosting-system" (embedded and others). Includes MIB compiler. Highly portable UDP/IP stack for SNMP and other applications. 2. Simple snmp agent. CMU based SNMP Agent portable engine changed and redesigned to be integrated with any "hosting-system" (embedded and others). Based on the popular core of the known CMU SNMP Agent, includes many improvements. Inexpensive solution. 3. Portable internetworking component: TCP, TELNET, HTTP/Web-server, TFTP, BOOTP, Bridge, RMON, RIP and more. 4. NT/W95 and DOS based SNMP Manager for SNMP developers. In addition to SNMP also includes ping, udp-echo and cookie client. Available as an executables or developer tool-kit. j. Castle Rock Computing 20863 Stevens Creek Blvd Cupertino, CA 95014 408-366-6540 SNMPc is a full-featured SNMP Manager for Windows http://www.castlerock.com k. The SNMP WorkShop P.O. Box 3949 Danbury, CT 06813-3949 Voice: 800-731-SNMP [7667] or: 203-778-9654 Fax: 203-778-9611 mailto:snmpshop@ix.netcom.com http://www.pantherdig.com/~snmpshop "SNMP Edge(r) is an add-on set of management utilities for use with any SNMP management platform running Windows 95 or Windows NT. SNMP EdgeMon/DSM works with the NetOps Corporation's Distributed Status Monitor (DSM) polling engine to provide unsurpassed agent diagnostic monitoring capability. EdgeMon/DSM is available for Sun Solaris. The WorkShop also sells SNMP products via a direct channel. Call, Email or write for a catalog. Visit our Web Site for shareware products and demo licenses." l. Network Management Technologies SNMP Agent for Relay Actuators / Contact Closures Contact: Mark Hammett mailto: mhammett@nmt.com.au http://www.nmt.com.au/~mhammett Tel: +61 2 365 6460 Fax: +61 2 365 0871 m. NetOps Corporation Distributed Status Monitor (DSM) High Performance SNMP Data Gathering for Monitoring and Diagnosis http://www.netops.com mailto:louiss@netops.com Tel: 914-747-7600 n. RedPoint Software Corporation http://www.redpt.com We make an ODBC-SNMP driver for Windows 95/NT. We also have an interactive demo on our web site that can be used to query any snmp enabled device on the internet. Clay Finley clay@redpt.com o. MultiPort Corp. 622 Charlestown Meadows Dr. Westboro, MA 01581 WWW: http://www.multiport.com EZMP, PortMon, Ip Stack, BRID, Consulting services. Highly portable components including: SNMPv1/v2 agent, MIB Compiler, IP stack, RMON agent, spanning tree bridge. Ph: +1-508-366-5867 Fax: +1-508-366-4978 Email: Reuben Sivan, mailto:rsivan@multiport.com p. MibMaster Web: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~equival Email: equival@ozemail.com.au Fax: +61 43 68 1395 Voice: +61 43 68 2118 MibMaster is an HTML to SNMP gateway which allows any Web browser to be used to view SNMP MIBs. It supports: - full SNMP v1 - traps - setting of MIB variables - Host discovery - MIB discovery - UDP and IPX protocols It comes with full MIBs for RFC 1213. Lots more MIBS available from the Equivalence Web site. An SNMP to HTML covert is provided. A working version limited to seven variables per page is available for free download. Registration costs $US50 and allows unlimited variables per page. For Windows 95, Windows NT, Solaris 2.5 and Linux x86. q. MG-SOFT MIB Compiler MG-SOFT Corporation, Strossmayerjeva 32A, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia WEB http://www.mg-soft.si/ E-mail info@mg-soft.si I'd like to inform you that on 19-May-1997 MG-SOFT Corporation released the MGMIBC MIB Compiler (Previev Release 1), an add-on utility for the MG-WinSNMP SDK V1.0b7. It is available for downloading from the following URL: http://www.abit.co.jp/varidocs/mgmibc-0.zip (distribution file, 513K) http://www.abit.co.jp/varidocs/mgmibc-0.txt (readme file) The aim of this release is to provide a MIB Compiler for the MG-WinSNMP SDK and to illustrate it's usage. The release of the MGMIBC MIB Compiler supplements and not replaces the contents of the MG-WinSNMP SDK V1.0b7 distributed in the mgt10b7.zip file and before using the MIB Compiler you need to install the MG-WinSNMP SDK V1.0b7 (available from http://www.abit.co.jp/varidocs/mgt10b7.zip), since it contains necessary libraries for running the MGMIBC MIB Compiler. The pre-alpha version of MIB Explorer (a MIB Browser and MIB Manager with the user interface similar to the Microsoft Windows 95 Explorer) is included into this release of MIB Compiler as a sample application that uses the smidb database files through the WinMIB.DLL library. r. ClearSystems "ClearStats/Lite is a sophisticated yet inexpensive network management tool. ClearStats/Lite Version 2.0 is available Win NT, HP-UX and Solaris." http://www.clearstats.com vbell@clearsys.com (972) 541-1771 t. BMC Software, Inc. 2101 CityWest Blvd Houston, TX 77042 Ph: 800-841-2031 Fx: 713-918-8001 mailto:Rod_Reynolds@bmc.com PATROL SNMP Toolkit (tm) (formerly PEER OPTIMA). "Interoperable, extensible SNMP agents and high level development tools." u. COMTEK Services, Inc. 3545 Chain Bridge Road Suite 103 Fairfax, VA 22030 Phone: 703-278-0110 FAX: 703-278-0108 Sales: Dick Easton mailto: easton@comtek.mv.com http://www.comtekservices.com COMTEK Services specializes in extensible agents including products in the following areas: -system management subagents for OpenVMS, OS/400, and Stratus VOS systems -graphical MIB editor with optional subagent code generation -subagent development toolkit -special purpose subagent development The NM*Server is an extensible agent. COMTEK Services' MIB Editor is a tool which facilitates the generation of new MIBs or the modification of existing MIBs. The NM*Toolkit subagent development toolkit provides a subagent kernel which includes features for the reliable reception of traps and generation and maintenance of a subagent configuration file. @3. ~Subject: Where can I get SNMP Shareware? ----------------------------------------------------- Joerg Christ wrote: >Hi, > >i'm searching manager programms and tools like snmpget, snmgetnext ... > for Windows NT 4.0 or 3.51. 1. You may wish to check MG-WinSNMP SDK, a 32-bit winsnmp implementation by MG-SOFT. It is available under the shareware license. You can download it from http://www.mg-soft.si/ Best regards, Matjaz Vrecko 2. The SNMP WorkShop has released its SNMP Edge(r) Lite product for Windows 95 and Windows NT in a shareware version. for details, visit http://www.pantherdig.com/~snmpshop @4. ~Subject: Miscellaneous FTP Sources -------------------------------------- [NOTE: ALSO SEE BRUCE'S HUGE 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 --------------------------------------------------------- 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 JP McNeely writes: "Both of these files are now available under: ftp://ftp.synoptics.com/tmp/eng/mibcompiler Note that the Synoptics MIB is available under: ftp://ftp.synoptics.com/synoptics.mib 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 [EDITOR'S NOTE: Micha Kushner writes: That name is didn't work for me. Try http://www.isi.edu Towards the bottom of the home page they have access to the ftp archives. Try the /mib directory (not /ftp/mib). The address ftp.isi.edu is also OK and equivalent to www.isi.edu] 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/pub/Digital/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 JP McNeely writes: "The above is now under: ftp://ctron.com/pub/snmp/mibs ftp://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, nameserver, thruput. Uses curses display, runs on Unix. Future enhancements intended for SNMP variables, etc. ftp://aarnet.edu.au/pub/gwtraffic AARNet Traffic Monitoring This document describes the implementation of the 'new' AARNet traffic monitoring application. The application is composed of several (sh) shell script programs, together with an SNMP application (GWTRAFFIC) and an interactive plotting program (GNUPLOT). Re: perl & SNMP There are two solutions: one requires patches to perl, the other (Tricklet, see above) uses an external program. Contact gmstreet@guy.b30.ingr.com for information on his extension/patches to perl for SNMP. It might be available via FTP on liasun3.epfl.ch/pub/net/snmp/snmpperl* Re: "The Internet Rover" contact wbn@merit.edu -----------------------Paul Boot writes: I have a small contribution to the FAQ concerning SNMP FTP sites. For the European users this site will be usefull: ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk dir: computing/comms/tcpip/snmp This dir contains Tricklet, xsnmp, xnetdb and others. Your Editor notes... Public domain network management tools (not necessarily SNMP) are available via anonymous FTP from ftp://cs.curtin.edu.au. Look in the /pub/netman directory. The tools are: etherman - displays ethernet traffic by volume geotraceman - displays a geographic version of traceroute @5 thru @9: Reserved @10. ~Subject: What CMIP software is available? ----------------------------------------- A. Public Domain Software is available from University College London, UK as follows: [NOTE: ALSO SEE BRUCE BARNETT'S FTP LIST IN PART 1.] Graham Knight writes: >HOW TO GET A COPY >OSIMIS is not a supported package and no guarantees are offered about >its operation. You may use it and adapt it to your own use but this is entirely at your own risk. We may be able >to help with any problems you have but we can offer no guarantees - >there is very little effort to spare for this at UCL. >1. Internet > If you can FTP to the Internet, you can use anonymous FTP to > cs.ucl.ac.uk [128.16.5.31] and retrieve the files > osimis/osimis-3.tar.Z (a 2.2 Mb compressed tar image), > osimis/osimis-manual-1.ps.Z (0.4 Mb of compressed postrcript). > If you do not have InterViews-2.6, you may also retrieve the files > osimis/InterViews-2.6.tar.Z (a 3.4 Mb compressed tar image) and > osimis/InterViews.README (a text file). >2. FTAM on the IPSS, JANET or IXI > If you can use FTAM over X.25, you can use anonymous FTAM to the > host 23421920030013 through IPSS, 00000511160013 through JANET > or 20433450420113 through IXI with TSEL 259 (acsii encoding). > You should log in as "anon" and retrieve the files > osimis/osimis-3.tar.Z (a 2.2 Mb compressed tar image) and > osimis/osimis-manual-1.ps.Z (0.4 Mb of compressed postrcript). > If you do not have InterViews-2.6, you may also retrieve the files > osimis/InterViews-2.6.tar.Z (a 3.4 Mb compressed tar image) and > osimis/InterViews.README (a text file). > For information only: > Telephone: +44-71-380-7215 (George Pavlou) > +44-71-380-7366 (Graham Knight) > Fax: +44-71-387-1397 > Telex: 28722 > Internet: @11. ~Subject: SNMP and Windows NT/95 -------------------------------- Note: This section is NOT intended to replace the Winsock FAQ, but only to provide some specific SNMP-related references. ===Subject: Books on Windows 95/NT SNMP Windows NT SNMP by: James D. Murray ISBN 1-56592-338-3 O'Reilly 800-998-9938 www.oreilly.com ===Subject: Getting started with SNMP on Windows NT Windows NT comes with an extendible agent. You can install the extendible agent, and a included MIBII extension, in Network in ControlPanel. Under the Services Tab, you can press add service. The files should be included on your CD. I don't think its possible to get the source code for the extendible. There are, however, source code available for extension agents. You should be able to find a document called "Microsoft Windows NT ANMP Agent Extension", by Steve Rosato, if you search in SDKs, MSDN or maybe Microsofts Web-pages. This document together with the sample (Toaster-agent) gives a starting point in developing own extensions. There are also several extensions available from diffrent vendors. Both SNMP Agents and Managers on NT (and Win95) use the SNMP API. There are source code available for a simple manager called SNMPUTIL and SNMPWALK. Try to search for these. And of course it's possible to buy NT managers form diffrent vendors. Kenneth Herskedal ===Subject: Getting Traffic Counts >From a long post by Jean Renard Ward on traffic counts: -------------------- begin excerpts: This is a note I am posting and EMailing to many of the people who contacted us from the USENET Newsgroups, ListServers, and other forums about how to get the network traffic counters on Windows95 and WindowsNT. -- snip -- // "Coding for Win95 - The SNMP MIB" // http://www.dbn.lia.net/users/chris/snmp.html // or // http://196.27.35.6/users/chris/snmp.html -- snip -- // There is more information on SNMP at: // http://www.inforamp.net/~kjvallil/snmp.html ------------------- end excerpts for more info: mailto:jrward@world.std.com ===Subject: ucd-snmp and Windows NT Rick> Has anybody tried to get the ucd-snmp package to compile/work Rick> on NT 4.0 ? Not that I'm aware of. Rick> My understanding is that the CMU-snmpv2.1.2 is required. Any Rick> reason this would not work ? Well, the SNMP package under perl does work with ucd-snmp, so there shouldn't be any problems there. The problems will come from differences between NT and unix. If you try it, I suggest finding the gcc compiler for NT (I'm pretty sure it exists) and use that as your compiler, because it will behave more like a unix compiler. There is a fairly good chance that the library will compile without a lot of problems, which is all you need for the SNMP perl module. Wes ===Subject: Re: Traps with Ms Windows NT 4.0 SNMP API jp@dialogs.de wrote: > I'm trying to develop an agent, that sends traps with some variable > bindings included. So far the only success was a crash of the SNMP > service (bad luck!). My guess is, that I do not allocate memory > correctly. > > Could anyone post me sample code how to do it right or any other > advice. Make sure you use the SNMP_malloc and SNMP_free routines. Also make sure that you allocated (via SNMP_malloc) the varBindList.List memory sizeof RFC1157VarBind * # of variables (where # of variables equals the len field). Cindy ===Subject: Windows 95 SNMP Agent Sanjay Zalavadia (sanjay@svnetworks.com) wrote: : Anyone know of an SNMP agent that can be run on Windows 95 The Win95 SNMP-Agent is included on the Win95-CD. The agent can be installed via the Network Option in the Control Panel. Location on the Cd is ADMIN\NETTOOLS Martin Steiner If you don't have the right win95 cd, you can get it from http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/info/admintools.htm under "SNMP Agent and related files" at the bottom of the page. Margie Mago ===Subject: SNMP Community Strings on Windows 95 Bob deBoda wrote: > > how can i set the community names for win95 computers? tia. You have to do it directly by the windows registry. Microsoft doesn't provides a tool to do it!! Open the registry -> regedit Go under : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services... ...\SNMP\Parameters\TrapConfiguration Add a key representing the communities you want to support. Under this key, add string values representing the machines you want to be in your community. Go under : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services... ...\SNMP\Parameters\ValidCommunities Add the communities that you which SNMP to Accept request from. (I'm not sure if this key is used, because the NT tool to add communities doesn't update this key!!). Alain Dessureaux ===Subject: Windows 95/NT MIB Rich> Anyone kindly advise me where can I find MIB for win95/NT ? Rich> I have a SunNet manager that need to monitor the status of Win95/NT. you can find the MIBs for NT and related software (IIS...) at ftp.microsoft.com/softlib/ , the file is called NEWMIB.EXE You can find this file on the RK - CD also. The Win95 MIB should be provided on the Win95 CD in admin\nettools\snmp, but I don't know if there is a special Win95 MIB. Martin Steiner ===Subject: SNMP Tool Kit for Windows NT LogiSoft AR Ltd. is shipping SNMP toolkit for Windows NT. For more information please visit www.logisoftar.com. Alan Revzin ===Subject: The "Toaster MIB" and How to Use It > Is anyone here acquainted with the sample SNMP extension agent and > management app that come with the NT SDK? The management app is > command-line based, and the extension agent is supposed to manage a virtual > Toaster, of all things. > > Howver, I cannot get any of it to work. The extension agent dll is > registered properly, and is definitely being loaded into the SNMP service's > process space, but the SnmpExtensionInit API is never called. Can anyone > explain why this might be ? It's got me utterly stumped ... > > Reuben Harris If you want to test the toaster mib extension agent dll, you must compile the toaster.mib file with mib compiler, mibcc (this mib compiler is in NT resource kit CD) when you compile the toaster.mib, you must consider the order of mib file. i think <> and then restart the snmp service and retest the snmputil. Hae-Joo Kim 1) Install the SNMP Agent network service in Windows 95/NT. (Sounds like you already did this.) 2) Register the extension agent in your Window 95/NT registery via regedit/regedit32. (Sounds like you did this too.) 3) If needed, compile the extension agent. (Using Visual C++ 5.0, I successfully compiled the toaster MIB as a DLL with a static link to snmpapi.lib.) 4) Install the extension agent (i.e. toaster MIB DLL) in the directory you defined in regedit/regedit32. 5) (And this is what took me a day to figure out...) Install snmpapi.dll in c:/windows. 6) Restart your agent Windows 95/NT platform. Your SNMP manager should now be able to query the "toaster MIB" extension agent under 1.3.6.1.4.1.77.2. Dave Downey @12. ~Subject: More About CMU SNMP Software -------------------------------------- The newest CMU SNMP library (ftp://ftp.net.cmu.edu/pub/snmp/cmu-snmp-V1.7.tar.gz) contains manpages. For examples of how to use this library, check out the snmpapps collection: ftp://ftp.net.cmu.edu/pub/snmp/snmpapps/ An example of using the build-in miniclient can be found at: ftp://ftp.net.cmu.edu/pub/snmp/dns/dnscmd/ I've released the CMU SNMP Library, version 1.9. This version contains a bunch of additions and portability mods submitted by lots of people from the net. This version also contains a basic Win32 port. I've included a workspace for VC++ 5.0, allowing you to build the SNMP library as a dll. The library is not threaded, so it's probably not what you want in a Win32 application, but it will get you started. I've released a new version of the CMU SNMP Apps. They are located at: ftp://ftp.net.cmu.edu/pub/snmp/snmpapps The major change in this version is the Win32 port. Included is a readme file that will tell you how to compile them under Win32 with the newest CMU SNMP library (1.9). -Ryan Troll ==QUESTION: Anthony Perry wrote: > I am trying to get CMU SNMP to compile nicely on Solaris 2.5.1 using Gcc > 2.7.2. I am getting a tonne of warnings on the lib build and tonnes of > errors on the apps. > Any suggestions that you can give will be greatly appreciated. ==ANSWERS: try ftp://ftp.ece.ucdavis.edu/pub/snmp Niels Baggesen Which CMU SNMP distribution are you using? ftp://ftp.net.cmu.edu/pub/snmp/cmu-snmp-V1.6.tar.gz should compile without any problems. -Ryan Troll ==QUESTION: (Philip L. Tsai) writes: > The lastest distribution number I saw is 2.1.2, which doesn't compile > successfully on Solaris (-- I ran into the same difficulty as Anthony). > Is V1.6 the same as 2.1.2 ? > ==ANSWER: No. V1.6 is the SNMPv1 package, modified to allow SNMPv2 requests. It is not based on the 2.1.2 package at all, doesn't come with an SNMP agent, and doesn't support parties. Basicly, if you want to write an SNMP app, I'd suggest this library. But that's just because it's what I'm currently using. :) If you want an agent and/or the SNMPv2 party stuff, use the library from ftp://ftp.ece.ucdavis.edu/. -Ryan Troll ==QUESTION: Steven Chew wrote: > Can some kind soul please summarize the differences between > the CMU version 1.6 and the UCD version 3.2 SNMP packages? > I believe they both started from version 2.1.2 of the > CMU library. > > Which one should I use as the basis > to write an agent for an ethernet switch? Thanks a million! ==ANSWER: UCD started out from CMU 2.1.2. CMU 1.6 is a rewrite (started from CMU 1.1)that offers an API and the simple applications (GET, GETNEXT, WALK, SET), but no agent functionality. UCD has a reasonably complete (extensible) agent for many (Unix) operating systems. -- Niels Baggesen ===QUESTION: Does CMU provide an agent? ===ANSWER: The CMU SNMP Agent was part of the older SNMP software available via: ftp://ftp.net.cmu.edu/pub/snmp-dist/cmu-snmp2.1.2.tar.Z We currently do not support that agent. I'd suggest looking at the UCD SNMP Agent. It was based on this agent, but is more functional and portable. -Ryan Troll ===QUESTION: Guochun Zhao writes: > I have two questions for developing SNMP Manager for trap messages. > > (1) In CMU library, when you start a session with snmp_open(), you > have to specify whether it is SNMPv1 or SNMPv2. Is that possible > to develop a manager can handle both SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 trap > messages simultaneously? > ===ANSWER: Yes. Before you send each trap, reset the Version field of the snmp_session structure to the appropriate value. When the library decodes a PDU, it resets the version of the session to what it received. The version is only really used as a sanity check when encoding V1/V2 specific PDUs. If you change it before each send, everything _should_ work. > (2) How do I configure the community for SNMPv1 trap message? > The community string for all PDUs (V1 traps included) is the session community string. Just change it when you change the session Version, and everything _should_ work as well. -Ryan Troll ==QUESTION: Adding MIB to CMU SNMP 1.7 ==ANSWER: Basicly, you need to do the following: * Make sure it's a v2 MIB (MAX-ACCESS, not ACCESS; etc.) * Remove MODULE-IDENTITY entries * Remove TEXTUAL-CONVENTIONs * Remove DEFVAL entries * Remove (SIZE()) constraints on anything (IE: OCTET STRING and DisplayString) * Make sure the first quote on all DESCRIPTION strings are followed by a space That's all I can think of offhand. Typicly, I make these changes, and then stick the new MIB into the MIBFILE, and see what fails. I've been placing the MIBs I've modified for use with our parser in: ftp://ftp.net.cmu.edu/pub/mibs/ If anybody comes up with other MIBS that have been modified, or changes that need to be made, please send them to me, and I'll add them to the HowTo / put them on the FTP site. -Ryan Troll @13. ~Subject: Miscellaneous SNMP-related Products --------------------------------------------- ===Subject: SNMP and SQL Ivan Leong wrote: > > for the data received via snmpwalk on _any_ given server, > how do i go about defining a SQL database table to store > the data? > > it should be as general as possible, ie, the table makes > no assumation on the SNMP data nor the server(s) the data > are from .. I don`t know if it will solve your problem, but check this URL: http://www.redpt.com The product is called SNMP QL. It allows you to do SQL queries on an SNMP MIB. Benoit Legare If you want a lot of versatility in the use of enterprise MIBs, as well as some fun, try SnmpQL from Redpoint Software (http://www.redpt.com) . It is an ODBC driver that reads SNMP data as a database. The ODBC driver setup has a built in MIB compiler, and it ships with several MIBs. Imagine tying in SNMP Gets and/or Sets with an Excel spreadsheet, Access database, etc. It's a totally different approach than SNMPc or HPOV, but it will give you some creative ways to use the NT enterprise MIBs as well as the MIB-II structure. Jeff Jones ===Subject: Monitoring Applications with SNMP Paul Julie wrote: > I wish to implement SNMP for monitoring application status. Here is a brief > list of requirements: > > 1) Segmentation fault or application dies, I would like the application to > trap on this and send a message to OpenView or Tivoli (I realize this can be > done through signals) > > 2) If we are reading a stream of synchronous data and it is suddenly stopped > or slowed down it would be nice to report this to OpenView or Tivoli. > > I realize that SNMP was meant for networks, but I have been reading it's > matured into an application monitoring tool as well. > > N.B We are currently using OpenView and are not committed to Tivoli, but we > are leaning in that direction. Apparently Tivoli will handle SNMP. > > Having said all of this I need information on the following: > > 1) Where are the SNMP C/C++ API's located to do this? > 2) I need example code. <--very important > 3) I need supported platforms for Sun Solaris 2.5.1 and NT 4.0 > 4) Is there a "good" FAQ on this. > I've played around with lots of SNMP code, most of it freely available. I've found the best for Solaris 2.5.1 to be from MIT. It compiled without error and the code was very clean, if a little too elegant. You can get it from ftp://mercury.lcs.mit.edu/pub/snmp. However, documentation is thin on the ground. I spent a couple of days with the code and it taught me a lot more than anything else. I'm successfully building agents to monitor our remote applications and databases with it. (If you need help getting started I'll send you the code I have added so you can get a general idea) It took me ages to crawl up the learning curve for SNMP. Everything seemed too complicated in the beginning, and the FAQs were not all that much use. However, I found a book that helped me a lot. [Total SNMP 2nd ed. (1998) Sean Harnedy published Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-646994-9] Malcolm Sparks [Editor's Notes: Sorry, Mr. Julie, but there are no '"good" FAQ's on this', just this one. Sorry we let you down too, Mr. Sparks. Hopefully adding your input will make it more useful to the next pilgrim.] @14. ~Subject: SNMP and OS/2 ----------------- QUESTION: Andreas Kuhn wrote: > I am new to SNMP. I want to start a snmp agent on a OS2 System. > On a OS2 Warp 3 i have some tool: snmp, snmpd, snmpgrp ... > On Warp4 the programs seem not to exist anymore. Where have they gone? > How can I get a snmp agent for warp4? ANSWER: Check out the free software/systemview agent stuff at: http://www.raleigh.ibm.com/sha/shahome.html Margie Mago @III. MIBS ---------- @1. ~Subject: What is a MIB? ----------------- A collection of objects which describe an SNMP managable entity. An Important Note: There IS ONLY ONE SNMP MIB. All these other "MIBs" which are cited herein are extensions to *the* SNMP MIB. Popular usage and strict definition do not agree on this point, so be careful in how and when you talk about the plural of MIB. @2. ~Subject: What are MIB-I and MIB-II ----------------------------- MIB-I was the first SNMP MIB accepted as standard. MIB-II added some much-needed objects, and has become the standard SNMP MIB. Note that SNMPv2 expands upon MIB-II with new groups and objects, and is therefore not MIB-II but includes MIB-II. See below for more about SNMPv2. Dave Jagoda writes to provide ... " ... some useful RFC's that I think might be of general interest (particularly since I think many people don't realize these exist and might try to invent something like these on their own). They all have in common the fact that they are assigned under the mib-2 portion of the tree." RFC1158, RFC1213, RFC1215: mib-2 ( 1 - 11 ) mib-2 ------------------------------------------- In the case of MIB-2 (12), brock@cs.unca.edu writes: In RFC 1229, Extension to the Generica-Interface MIB, the objects in ifExtensions, experimental (6), are defined. In RFC 1239, some experimental MIBs are reassigned to standard MIBs. At that time, the Generic IF objects are reassigned to mib-2 (12). However, RFC 1573 officially "obsoletes" RFC 1229, by defining a new class objects, in mib(30) and mib(31) that replace the the ones of RFC 1229. Also, there seems to be a new RFC -- RFC 1657 -- for mib-2 (15), BGP. ------------------------------------------- RFC1243: mib-2 ( 13 ) appletalk RFC1253: mib-2 ( 14 ) ospf RFC1269: mib-2 ( 15 ) bgp (obsolete?) RFC1657: mib-2 ( 15 ) BGP (current?) RFC1271: mib-2 ( 16 ) rmon RFC1286: mib-2 ( 17 ) dot1dBridge RFC1289: mib-2 ( 18 ) phiv RFC1316: mib-2 ( 19 ) char RFC1353: mib-2 ( 20 - 21) snmpParties, snmpSecrets RFC1368: mib-2 ( 22 ) snmpDot3RptrMgt RFC1389: mib-2 ( 23 ) rip2 RFC1414: mib-2 ( 24 ) ident RFC1514: mib-2 ( 25 ) host RFC1515: mib-2 ( 26 ) 802.3 MAUs RFC1565: mib-2 ( 27 ) network services RFC1566: mib-2 ( 28 ) mail RFC1567: mib-2 ( 29 ) X.500 directory RFC1573: mib-2 ( 30 ) "IANA ifType" RFC1573: mib-2 ( 31 ) "Interfaces Group" RFC1611: mib-2 ( 32 ) DNS server RFC1628: mib-2 ( 33 ) UPS RFC1666: mib-2 ( 34 ) SNA NAUs For info on an effort to develop a WWW server MIB, see http://www.onramp.net/~cwk/http-mib Micha Kushner writes: You should make the following updates to part 2 of snmp faq, @III, @2. Many of the RFS'c listed have been obsoleted. MIB-II- Listed New ------------------------------------- 13 1243 1742 14 1253 1850 16 1271 1513 (Has rmon token ring extensions) 17 1286 1493 18 1289 1559 19 1316 1658 22 1368 1516 23 1389 1724 ------------------------------------- Draft MIB RFCs as of 1 July 1996 RFC 1493 - Bridge RFC 1516 - IEE 802.3 Repeater RFC 1559 - DECNet phase IV RFC 1657 - BGP version 4 RFC 1658 - Character Device RFC 1659 - RS-232 Interface RFC 1660 - Parallel Printer RFC 1694 - SMDS Interface Protocol (SIP) RFC 1724 - RIP version 2 RFC 1742 - Appletalk RFC 1748 - IEEE 802.5 Token Ring Interface RFC 1757 - RMON RFC 1850 - OSPF version 2 proposed MIB standards as of 1 July 1996 RFC 1285 - FDDI Interface (SMT 6.2) RFC 1315 - Frame Relay DTE RFC 1354 - IP Forwarding RFC 1381 - X.25 LAPB RFC 1382 - X.25 PLP RFC 1406 - DS1/E1 Interface RFC 1407 - DS3/E3 Interface RFC 1414 - Identification RFC 1461 - Multiprotocol Interconnect over X.25 RFC 1471 - PPP Link Control Protocol RFC 1472 - PPP Security Protocols RFC 1473 - PPP IP Network Control Protocol RFC 1474 - PPP Network Control Protocol RFC 1512 - FDDI Interface (SMT 7.3) RFC 1513 - Token Ring Extensions to RMON RFC 1514 - Host Resources RFC 1515 - IEE 802.3 MAU RFC 1525 - Source Routing Bridge RFC 1565 - Network Services Monitoring RFC 1566 - Mail Monitoring RFC 1567 - X.500 Directory Monitoring RFC 1573 - Evolution of MIB-II IF Group RFC 1595 - SONET/SDH Interface RFC 1604 - Frame Relay Service RFC 1611 - DNS Server RFC 1612 - DNS Resolver RFC 1628 - UPS RFC 1650 - Ether-Like Interface RFC 1666 - SNA NAU RFC 1695 - ATM RFC 1696 - Modem RFC 1697 - RDBMS RFC 1747 - SNA DLC RFC 1749 - IEEE 802.5 Station Source Routing RFC 1759 - Printer @2a. ~Subject: How do I convert SNMP V1 to SNMP V2 MIBs? ----------------------------- snow@hei.co.kr wrote: > > hello! > > I have some need to convert standard v2 mib to v1 mib. > v2 mib has a object with syntax Counter64. > how can I convert that object to v.1 synatx object? > Is there any standard approach? > > thank you in advance. I don't know if it's still in service, but try to send your v2 mib to following address: mailto:mib-v2tov1@simple-times.org About Counter64 objects, there is no possible translation. You should suppress them from the mib before sending it. Olivier Miakinen 64-bit counters are not supported in SMIv1 nor are they supported in SNMPv1 protocol. RFC 2089 covers the behavior of bi-lingual SNMP agents. [post edited here] The best approach for now is to NOT use the data type of Counter64 in defining a new MIB object, and instead define two MIB objects. One object is the low 32 bits of a counter value and the other object is the high bits of a counter value. This places a burden on SNMP applications, but is the best approach to be used until the high capacity issue is addressed by the IETF SNMP community. David T. Perkins Marc Ikemann wrote: > Hi, > > I hope you aren't sick of this question - I can imagine that it's asked > often - but I'm unable to find an answer, even the FAQ doesn't > tell me ... > > ... how to convert an SNMPv1 MIB to SNMPv2 ?! On the following, "how can you convert a MIB in the SMIv1 format to one in the SMIv2 format", the answer is that you cannot do this machanically. This is because there is more information content in the SMIv2 format than the SMIv1 format. You can do much of the work with a text editor, but not all. The process is covered on pages 206-211 in "Understanding SNMP MIBs" by perkins and mcginnis, and in RFC 1908 pages 1-6. David T. Perkins @3. ~Subject: What are enterprise MIBs? [MIB segments?] ---------------------------------- An enterprise MIB is a MIB created by an enterprise [company, etc] to define a set of objects that are related to some product[s] from this enterprise, and that the enterprise agrees to make public so that network managers can use the MIB to manage some products from this enterprise. Here are some enterprises that have their own enterprise MIB : Proteon, IBM, CMU, ACC... - Paul Rolland [Note: There are now hundreds of enterprise MIB numbers assigned.] @4. ~Subject: Where can I get enterprise MIBs? [MIB segments?] ------------------------------------ A. Try anonymous ftp to venera.isi.edu in mib/ [EDITOR'S NOTE: Micha Kushner writes: That name is didn't work for me. Try http://www.isi.edu Towards the bottom of the home page they have access to the ftp archives. Try the /mib directory (not /ftp/mib). The address ftp.isi.edu is also OK and equivalent to www.isi.edu] also: "If you're looking for a specific manufacturer's MIB, try their sites first: ftp.ctron.com - Cabletron ftp.cisco.com - Cisco ftp.xyplex.com - Xyplex" Almon (Al) Sorrell, Telecom Engineer B. For now: see Section II, topic 1, part C for more FTP sites. C. The companies which sell networking gear usually have a Web site or FTP site from which you can obtain their MIB segments. @4a. ~Subject: How can I get ______ from the _____ MIB? --------------------------------------------------- QUESTION: Tim Finkenstadt writes: >Hello, > >I was reading on cisco's web page (http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/535/3.html) >on SNMP that you can get the information about the following: > - whether the router is in danger of losing packets because of lack of > available queue space. > - The average CPU usage over five-second, one-minute, and five-minute > periods. > - The temperature of air entering and leaving the router. > >Do any of you happen to know the SNMP location for those statistics? > >TIA, > >Tim > ANSWER: These values are from the Cisco Management Information Base(MIB) User Quick Reference - 10.3 Page 35 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.1.46 bufferFail 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.1.47 bufferNoMem Page 36 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.1.57 avgBusy1 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.1.58 avgBusy5 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.1.56 avgBusyPer Page 57 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.13.3 Use your snmpwalk to view this, too much to list I don't have the exact URL to find this, but I know it is available at http://www.cisco.com . Try searching for avgBusy1 to get in the right area. Dave Rupp ===================== QUESTION: I wonder if someone out there knows, where I can find useful information about the structure of the Microsoft MIB-Namespace (1.3.6.1.4.1.311...). Although I searched TechNet and NT-Server Ressource Kit, I found no detailed information. I'm especially interested in the OID's under the system tree (..311.1). Martin Steiner ANSWER: .311.1 microsoft.software .311.1.2 microsoft.software.Wins .311.1.2.1.1 microsoft.software.Wins.Par .311.1.2.1.2 microsoft.software.Wins.Pull .311.1.2.1.3 microsoft.software.Wins.Push. .311.1.2.1.4 microsoft.software.Wins.Datafiles .311.1.2.1.5 microsoft.software.Wins.Cmd These are the top level OIDs. From here it gets very detailed. I have found that the MIB instance returned is rather long and after study reveals that MS Mibs return the value as a numeric mapping. i.e. 100 = A, 101 = B, 103 = C ...... David Castaneda If you search the keyword WINS.MIB or DHCP.MIB in the TechNet, you should find something. Joe Wong ===================== QUESTION: Dan Teja wrote: > > I am trying to decifer date formats that are stored in octet strings. > > The date time Oct. 10 1997 10:01:02 is expressed as > > 07 CD 0A 0A 0A 01 02 00 2D 06 00 hex > 7 205 10 10 10 1 2 0 24 6 0 decimal > > I have played with it enough to believe that: > > 07 CD 0A 0A 0A 01 02 00 2D 06 00 > ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ > | | | | | seconds > | | | | minutes > | | | hours > | | day of month > | month > year > > The questions I still have are: > > How does 205 decode to 1997? The first two bytes are the year (0x07CD = 1997) > What does the rest of it mean? (leading 07 and trailing 00 2D 06 00) 8th byte is "deci-seconds" 9th byte is either 2B (ascii "+") or 2D ("-"), indicating direction from UTC. 10th byte is hours from UTC. 11th byte is minutes from UTC. Oct 10th, 1997, 10:01:02.0 -6 UTC See RFC-1903, DateAndTime TEXTUAL-CONVENTION definition. Jim Halpin === This problem would be much easier to figure out if you provided the MIB definition. There is no one standard format for storing date/time values. The hex value 07cd in decimal is 1997. The hex value 002d0600 could be the number of nano seconds, but you can only determine this by reading the MIB definition. David T. Perkins ======== QUESTION: Brad Harris wrote: > We are trying to setup T-1 utilization percentage stats using ifInOctets > and ifOutOctets. ANSWERS: I would suggest: (DELTA(ifInOctets) + DELTA(ifOutOctets)) * 8 -------------------------------------------- * 100 (DELTA(sysUpTime) / 100) * 1 540 000 where DELTA(attribute) means the difference of the value of attribute between two polls. Of course, the values for ifInOctets, ifOutOctets and sysUpTime should be requested in one single PDU. Olivier Miakinen Serial lines (including TDM systems like T1) measure interface speed as half duplex. That is, the 1.544 Megabit per second bandwidth is one way; a full duplex line actually has twice that value. 1.544 Mb for transmit, 1.544 Mb for receive. If you want the "interface utilization", then you would add outOctetcs and inOctets together, as you did, but use 3088000 for the interface speed. If you want "line utilization" (which is more valuable for typical management operations), you could use the "max" value of in or out Octets, as in the previous example. This is more useful, because the line may be at 50% utilization (using your method) and still be saturated, if all traffic is going one way. T. Max Devlin Make sure your time delta doesn't exceed the wrap time the 32 bit MIB2 counters, ~6 Hrs for T1. Its a nice touch if ifInOctets and ifOutOctets are bound in the same PDUs. Also bind sysUpTime in each PDU so you can detect agent reload. Charlie Dellacona T1 circuits are duplex, you have to have separate utilisation formulae for both in and out. Otherwise you run the risk of missing that your heavily utilised in one direction because the other is very light. In many configurations this is a likely situation, a short frame requesting data from a server or mainframe resulting in megabytes heading in the opposite direction. Wim Harthoorn To make your figures mean something useful, generate incoming and outgoing utilization separately. A T1 link is full-duplex....1.544 Mbps in each direction. An organizational T1 Internet link will saturate on the incoming side while the outgoing side is less than half utilized. Your formula would indicate that the link had some extra bandwidth capability when in reality its a major bottleneck. Gary Flynn You are missing a few subtleties of getting this exactly right. What you want to do is sample (all in one packet exchange) the values of ifInOctets, ifOutOctets, and sysUptime. Then, you sample all three again (after some interval) and use the three deltas to compute: Delta(ifInOctets)*8 -------------------- => Input % utilization Delta(sysUptime)*154 And likewise for output. Note that there are two factors of 100 folded into the denominator (that's why 154 instead of 1540000), one since sysUptime is hundredths of a second and the second to get a percent rather than a fraction. You could also fold the 8 and 154 together as well, but that's not an integer... And be sure your Delta function properly accounts for wrapping. You should do this periodically, each time computing the deltas from the previous sample, dropping intervals that are "insane" (e.g. sysUptime has a large delta [positive or negative] compared to the wall [or monitoring system] clock). You will want to compute _both_ deltas and plot them over time as well as extracting just the maximum value. You want a sampling period that's small enough to really indicate peaks, without being so short it overloads the monitoring or monitored systems. If you can, you want to monitor both ends of the line (ifOutOctets at one end may be greater than ifInOctets at the other, in which case it's a better measure of load in that direction). Michael A. Patton Dependent on your need for reproduction and historical tracking of the utilization and other factors such as error rates, you might want to consider purchasing a performance monitoring and reporting tool to help you through some of this. We have a tool for doing precisely what you want, and it also solves for cases of counter roll-over and sysuptime resets. Our tool is called ClearStats and is very economical and flexible. We have autodiscover and automated/scheduled reporting. Check us out at http://www.clearstats.com John Catalano ======== QUESTION: Bernd Bachmann wrote: >What is the best way > * to find out dynamically whether a given MIB is supported by a >specific device? > * to retrieve the list of MIBs (e.g. Repeater-MIB, Bridge-MIB, >enterprise-MIB) that is supported by this device? >Is it necessary to poll a specific variable in each MIB and interpret >the answer. If so, which variables are suitable? In SNMPv1, there is no "automated" way of "discovering" what MIBs an agent supports, so, yes, you would have to query something in each MIB module to verify it (not that this would verify that the agent supported everything in these modules). I'm not sure what the difference between your two questions was, though, since the only thing different seems to be that you used the word "dynamically" the first time. This, unfortunately, does not make any sense, as everything in SNMP is more-or-less "dynamic". In the now historical (some say hysterical ;-}) SNMPv2, they introduced a mechanism which is being carried forward to the now-proposed SNMPv3: agent capabilities statements and other MIB techniques for defining explicitly what groups of attributes an agent supports. These features are not yet widely supported, nor is it clear exactly what role they will play or how solidly they will be implemented. T. Max Devlin ======================= QUESTION > I would like to know if the RMON MIB is implemented on CISCO Router 2500 > series ? > > Thanks > > Laurent simonet All depends on the version of IOS you are using ... Check out ftp://ftp.cisco.com/pub/mibs/supportlists/c2500/supportlist.html Incidentaly you can find out about all Cisco MIB support from ftp://ftp.cisco.com/pub/mibs/supportlists Neil Lavelle ====================== QUESTION > > I'm looking for information about the differentes variables in the MIB > > CISCO to observe, threshold to respect, why and what are the actions to > > do to correct ? > > > > Patrick Koussou > There is a paper available, I believe I got it from the CISCO web site, > on setting a monitoring strategy for routers. > -- > Wim Harthoorn I'm not sure if this is the same page you are referring to, but I found one that might be useful. I remember finding it at alta vista searching for Cisco MIB, it was titled Guidelines for Polling Cisco MIBS. It came up within the first two pages of responses. Hope that helps. Robert Evans ================ QUESTION >>I'm looking for a small, simple programm for getting the >>interface traffic statistics from cisco routers. >> >> Matthias Lohmann See MRTG at http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/mrtg.html The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a tool to monitor the traffic load on network-links. MRTG generates HTML pages containing GIF images which provide a LIVE visual representation of this traffic. Check http://www.ee.ethz.ch/stats/mrtg/ for an example. MRTG is based on Perl and C and works under UNIX and Windows NT. MRTG is being successfully used on many sites arrond the net. Check the MRTG-Site-Map. Irwin M. Lazar @5. ~Subject: How can I register an enterprise MIB? ------------------------------------------ Mark Wallace writes: - A.5 (page 265) in "The Simple Book" shows how to apply. - You can email to IANA-MIB@isi.edu. - You can just call IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority). The number is 310-822-1511 x239. You'll be asked a few questions and be given you your number. This is faster than e-mail. Please supply: Company Name, Address, Voice Phone, Name of Contact, Contact's Address, Voice Phone, FAX Phone, Email. - You can snail mail: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority USC/Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 -- Mark Wallace Harris Corporation, Electronic Systems, Melbourne, Florida, USA If you utilize GNU Emacs, a profile is available which makes Emacs set up specifically for ASN.1 editing. Contact David C. Brower via dbrower@us.oracle.com. @5a. ~Subject: Where can I find the current Enterprise Number Assignments? ----------------- OFFICIAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE NUMBERS SMI Network Management Private Enterprise Codes: Prefix: iso.org.dod.internet.private.enterprise (1.3.6.1.4.1) This file is ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/enterprise-numbers @6. ~Subject: What is the SMI? ------------------- "In order for the MIB to serve the needs of a network-management system, it must meet two objectives: 1. The object or objects used to represent a particular resource must be the same at each node. [...] 2. A common scheme for representation must be used to support interoperability." - William Stallings, op. cit. below In both Internet and OSI network management these two objectives are met by a common structure of managment information (SMI) which is defined in RFC 1155. The SMI is the specification for the tree of MIB objects which which provides a means of associating a common numerical identification code for a given object. The top of the SMI tree is the familiar mapping: iso = 1 org = 3 dod = 6 internet = 1 mgmt = 2 mib-2 = 1 which is the global root prefix of every SNMP MIB object. For more details, read: I4B. SNMP, SNMPv2 and CMIP: The Practical Guide to Network Management Standards by: William Stallings @7. ~Subject: What is ASN.1? ------------------- ASN.1 : This is an Abstract Syntax Notation One. ASN.1 is an language used to define the formats of the PDUs that are exchanged by SNMP entities, and also used to defined the objects that are managed thru SNMP. This is a formal language, with a grammar that has been defined in : Information Processing Open System Interconnection Specification of Abstract Syntax Notation ONE (ASN.1). International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Committee, 1987. International Standard 8824. In ASN.1, you can define Modules, which are collections of ASN.1 descriptions, each description referring to an object. Possible objects are types, values and macros. Types can be both simple or constructed, constructed types being based on one or more simple types. Simple types are : Integer, Octet String, Object Identifier, NULL. - Paul Rolland ASN.1 is well defined and explained in three of the books mentioned in this FAQ: >From Philipp Hoschka: "I've assembled a number of ASN.1-related internet resources and included them in my homepage." http://www.inria.fr/rodeo/personnel/hoschka/asn1.html "Additions are welcome, but only in the form of working html references, please." I4F. Open Systems Networking: OSI & TCP/IP by: David Piscitello & A. L. Chapin I4B. SNMP, SNMPv2 and CMIP: The Practical Guide to Network Management Standards by: William Stallings I41A. The Open Book: A Practical Perspective on OSI by: Marshall T. Rose ALSO::::: >>ASN.1 is also defined in ITU (formerly CCITT) recommendation X.208. >>X.208 is electroniccaly available from itu document store: >>This is zip'ed postscript file of english version. >>Taavi Talvik [ Below is a revised address sent to Dave Waddell by Bob Shaw ] "Here's a new URL. We're in the midst of a software upgrade here so there may be service interruptions. These are in ZIPPED Postscript format. [X.208] Recommendation X.208 - Specification of Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) //info.itu.ch:70/11/.1/itudoc/public/gophertree/.1/.itu-t/.rec/.x/.2287 You might also be interested in: [X.209] Recommendation X.209 - Specification of basic encoding rules for Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) //info.itu.ch:70/11/.1/itudoc/public/gophertree/.1/.itu-t/.rec/.x/.2477 Go a couple of levels up to see other Recommendations." @A ~Subject: Appendix A. Glossary -------------------- TBS - A Big TV Station in Atlanta, Ga (Ha!) @B ~Subject: Appendix B. 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