sra@MBUNIX.MITRE.ORG (Stan Ames) (03/15/89)
The Air Force ULANA program is considering an upgrade in the network management area to bring the program in line with emerging standards and to foster commercial availability of network management products. The ULANA components that will be managed include host attachments, asychronous and synchronous attachments (i.e. terminal servers), bridges and the DDN gateway. Host attachments and the DDN gateway will be required to implement SNMP or CMOT to exchange the required MIB information with the Network Management Station. Asychronous attachments, synchronous attachments and bridges may use SNMP, CMOT, or a proxy to exchange the required MIB information with the network management station. The ULANA management information base (MIB) is planned to include the elements from RFC 1066 together with a subset of IEEE 802.3h. The network management station will be required to implement both SNMP and CMOT in order to exchange standard management information with the various agents and will use windows with telnet using VT100 emulation to manage device specific functions and MIB information not currently covered by the 1066 MIB (e.g. the RS232 side of terminal servers.) It will be required that all network management products be part of the vendors commercial product line so that the costs of producing network management can be shared by both commercial and government users. In deciding on whether to proceed with this approach we are soliciting input from both vendors and major users as to the merits of proceeding with a dual protocol network management approach at this time. Stan Ames sra@mitre-bedford.arpa