Entity MIB (entmib) ------------------- Charter Last Modified: 2005-06-10 Current Status: Active Working Group Chair(s): Margaret Wasserman Operations and Management Area Director(s): Bert Wijnen David Kessens Operations and Management Area Advisor: Bert Wijnen Mailing Lists: General Discussion:entmib@ietf.org To Subscribe: http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/entmib Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/entmib/index.html Description of Working Group: This working group is chartered to standardize a set of managed objects representing logical and physical entities and the relationships between them. Logical entities can occur when a single agent supports multiple instances of one MIB, such as RFCs 1493, 1525, or 1850 where each instance represents a single (logical) device/entity. Physical entities are the actual physical components on which the logical entities operate; typically, the physical components exist in a hierarchy. The set of objects will be consistent with the SNMP framework and existing SNMP standards. The scope of the defined managed objects should allow an NMS to interrogate a standard SNMP context and thereby discover what logical and physical entities exist, how to access the MIB information of each logical entity, and the relationships between the various entities. The MIB should support both a single agent or multiple agents in one physical entity. The WG will also standardize a set of managed objects representing sensor entities. Sensor entities are physical entities that report a value based on external conditions, such as temperature sensors, power monitors, etc. The Sensor Entity MIB will augment the basic Entity MIB to allow an NMS to obtain the value reported by a sensor. This MIB will not contain internal support for alarms or thresholds, but should work with standard alarm and threshold MIBs, such as RMON-2. Goals and Milestones: Done Post Internet-Draft for Entity MIB. Done Post updated Entity MIB Internet-Draft. Done Submit final version of Internet-Draft for consideration as a Proposed Standard. Done Finalize scope of changes/augmentations to RFC 2037 Done Post updated/new Internet Drafts Done Reach agreement on changes/extensions to RFC 2037 Done Evaluate status of RFC 2037 and report to the IESG if it should be recycled at Proposed or can be elevated to Draft Standard. Done Submit Internet Draft containing Entity MIB Extensions to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard. Done Evaluate status of Entity MIB and collect implementation and interoperability reports Done Recommend to the IESG if Entity MIB can be elevated to Draft Standard. Done Post Internet-Draft for Sensor Entity MIB Done Determine if the Entity MIB should be modified to resolve any open issues Done Submit final version of Internet-Draft for Sensor Entity MIB for consideration as a Proposed Standard Done Re-cycle the updated Entity MIB at proposed standard, if necessary Done Submit final version of Internet-Draft for Sensor Entity MIB for consideration as a Proposed Standard Done Post Internet-Draft for Sensor Entity MIB Done Determine if the Entity MIB should be modified to resolve any open issues Done Publish state/status extensions as a WG I-D Done Evaluate status of the Entity MIB and collect implementation and interoperability reports Done Evaluate status of the Entity MIB and collect implementation and interoperability reports Done Recommend to the IESG if the Entity MIB can be elevated to Draft Standard. Done Submit the Entity MIB to the IESG for Draft Standard Done Submit Entity State MIB to the IESG for Proposed Standard Jun 2004 Re-charter or shut-down the WG Internet-Drafts: No Current Internet-Drafts. Request For Comments: RFC Stat Published Title ------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------ RFC2037 PS Oct 1996 Entity MIB RFC2737 PS Dec 1999 Entity MIB (Version 2) RFC3433 PS Dec 2002 Entity Sensor Management Information Base RFC4133Standard Aug 2005 Entity MIB (Version 3) RFC4268Standard Dec 2005 Entity State MIB