ng@neutron.mpr.ca (Steve Ng) (06/14/91)
Dear LAN management gurus,
I am currently working on a paper describing the emerging LAN management
standards and technologies. Basically, there are four kinds of protocol suites
that people have used to manage their LANs:
SNMP - Internet standards (most popular)
CMOT - CMIP over TCP/IP, defined by a working group of IETF, considered
to be a migration stack to full CMIP.
CMOL - CMIP over LLC, defined by IBM and 3Com., provided a less expensive
method to run CMIP.
CMIP - ISO standards, too heavy on some of the LAN devices.
There are currently tons of products supporting SNMP either in the agent,
manager or both configurations. I am interested in finding out any products
that are supporting (or planning to support) the other protocol suites.
You can either email me or post on this newsgroup. I will post a summary
when I have collected enough information. (If you don't want to be included
in the summary, please indicate that in your response). Also, I heard that
there is on-line access to MIBs (besides those standard ones that are
described by RFCs) such as vendor's extension MIBs . Is that true and where
can I ftp them? Thank you very much for any related information.
Steve.
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