[comp.sys.proteon] SNMP variables for DECnet?

Gene.Hastings@BOOLE.ECE.CMU.EDU (08/14/89)

Does Proteon support any SNMP DECnet variables in version 8.1?

Alternately, does Proteon plan to expand their implementation of NCP so that
it responds to a few useful objects (so that an NCP> TELL (some Proteon
router) SHOW NODE or SHOW AREA would work, or that existing DEC tools like
NETPATH would work)?

Thanks,
Gene

tom@CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (Tom Easterday) (08/14/89)

  I too would like to know the answer to the questions Gene posed.  I would
  like to see SNMP variables for DECnet AND the traditional NCP commands.

                   Tom

hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) (08/15/89)

I am responsible for the original DECnet code used by cisco.  Several
months ago, I asked several groups, including this one, for some help
in defining SNMP (at that time SGMP) variables for monitoring DECnet.
I had in mind writing an RFC defining a DECnet extension to the MIB.
However in order to do this, I need to have some idea of what
variables it makes sense to monitor in other implementations.  I could
certainly propose a MIB extension based on the data collected by the
cisco implementation.  But that seems silly.  That can just as well be
put into cisco's private name space.  It only makes sense to talk
about an extension to the MIB if we find a reasonable degree of
commonality among several implementations.  I'd be happy to list the
data currently collected by cisco's DECnet implementation.  I can also
make a reasonable guess as to how difficult it would be to collect
other kinds of data.  If someone would be willing to do something
similar for the Proteon implementation, then I think we could do
something useful.