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Title:DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT.
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Created:Mon Aug 21 1989
Last Modified:Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:6497
Total number of notes:27359

2153.0. "Manage DECNET through SNMP?????" by OTOOA::DOIRON (Have DECmcc, willing to travel) Tue Jan 21 1992 13:59

    A presentation of DECmcc to a local university resulted in the
    discovery of a custom mib extension for DECNET.
    
    I was presented with RFC-1289, which apparently is an extension to the
    standard mib which will allow the 'management' of DECNET Phase IV nodes
    via SNMP.
    
    This document was produced by the DECnet Phase IV working group.
    Acknowledgements are made to Jon Saperia of Digital Equipment
    Corporation, Chris Chiotasso of Sparticus, and Steven Hunter of
    the National Energy Research Supercomputer Center, Lawrence Livermore
    National Laboratory.
    
    The mib extension follows ASN.1 concise format as described in
    RFC-1155.
    
    I will attempt to get the source file to try out.
    
    Comments are welcome.
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2153.1ENUF::GASSMANTue Jan 21 1992 15:2512
    There are not any vendors using the DECnet MIB yet that I know of, but
    probably very soon.  It's for vendors such as router vendors that have
    decnet specific things to manage - such as setting up the EXEC parameters.
    It's really a nice feature to have - because on a cisco router or such,
    you can manage the whole thing with SNMP and not have to telnet into
    the box to set it up.  There don't seem to be any Digital groups that
    are going to take advantage of this MIB.  It's only Phase IV.  A nice
    project would be a proxy agent that would accept SNMP commands refering
    to DECnet IV objects, and translate it into NICE, allowing any SNMP
    manager to manage Digital DECnet Phase IV devices.
    
    bill
2153.2MOM might be better than a proxyBLUMON::SYLORArchitect = Buzzword GeneratorTue Jan 28 1992 23:2811
    A more interesting project is to write a common agent MOM for Phase IV
    DECnet, VAX or Ultrix. Then you'ld be able to manage a Phase IV node
    using the Phase V CMIP and SNMP (and eventually RPC...). Now there's a
    useful product.
    
    The problem with a "gateway" or "proxy" box is the limited # of sales
    (you might not sell more than one per net, vs. 1 per VAX or MIPSCO).
    Even at $50 a copy - there are many thousands of DECnet-VAX licences out
    there...
    
    Mark