schoff@NISC.NYSER.NET (Martin Lee Schoffstall) (09/09/88)
On the 7th and 8th of September the "Simple Network Management Protocol" (SNMP, RFC1067) was successfully tested for interoperability by multiple vendors with multiple implementations. Additionally, the Structure of Management Information (SMI, RFC1065) and the Management information Base (MIB, RFC-1066) were rigoursly (and successfully) tested for interoperability. Users can now be confident that both Network Management Stations (NMS) and the imbedded agent/servers in terminal-servers, gateways, hosts, etc will uniformly interoperate. This SNMP "Connectathon" was held at NYSERNet's headquarters in Troy, NY. Martin Lee Schoffstall Director of Technology NYSERNet INC
cel%heart-of-gold@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (09/09/88)
Marty, Congratulations on your successful interoperability demonstration. It represents a major step toward achieving interoperable network management in the Internet. Lee LaBarre
zsu@TSCA.ISTC.SRI.COM (Zaw-Sing Su) (09/09/88)
Martin, Who were the participants? Or, could you tell us more about your "Connectathon"? Zaw-Sing
schoff@BEAR-MOUNTAIN.NYSER.NET ("Marty Schoffstall") (09/10/88)
Or, could you tell us more about your
"Connectathon"?
The objective was to test conformance to the SNMP/SMI/MIB specifications
of the various vendor implementations in a concentrated two day affair
with the experts present for consultation. Most vendors in the spirit
of getting things to work helped each other, this was a good thing.
All APDU types (GET, GET-NEXT, TRAP, SET,...) of SNMP were tested as
appropriate. In general all network management stations (NMS's)
tested all agent/servers.
Marty