CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Jim Greuel/ HP Minutes of April 11, 1989 Here are the minutes for the April 11, 1989 meeting of the LAN Manager MIB subgroup. For the benefit of newcomers, we began with an overview of LAN Manager and the subgroup's progress to date. We then discussed the issues put forward by Jim Greuel, coming to the following conclusions: 1. We felt that we did indeed want to support LAN Manager alerts in the first version of the LM MIB. 2. In order to accomplish (1) in an expedient manner, and avoid starting World War III, we decided to adhere strictly to the current SMI. Translated, this means: Do away with the event template. Show only the objects which trigger the events (eg, counters, gauges), and the objects associated with them. All pertinent information dealing with the conditions which trigger events/traps are to be explained in the definition portion of the appropriate object templates. 3. All ``event'' descriptions should have examples which show implementation under both SNMP and CMOT. For SNMP, either a new generic-trap (7) would be proposed, or the enterprise specific trap (6) would be used in conjunction with a ``LAN Manager'' enterprise. 4. We discussed the possibility of representing the objects associated with events/traps via tables. 5. We decided to provide only ``read-only'' objects. In particular, there will be no way of clearing the LAN Manager statistic objects via SNMP/CMOT. This is consistent with the definition of the statistic-like objects defined in RFC1066. 6. It was decided to do away with the use of the BITSTRING type, replacing it with OCTET STRINGs upon which we would impose a bit map interpretation. Concerning Microsoft's willingness to provide modifications/enhancements to the LAN Manager Admin API's: Amatzia read a formal statement from Microsoft indicating their consent to this, contingent on technical review and schedule considerations. Jim Greuel will make the agreed upon modifications to the main body of the document. Amatzia Ben-Artzi and Jeff Case volunteered to modify the 1 ``event'' section of the document, Amatzia providing CMOT examples, Jeff SNMP examples. The goal is to put the revised document on the MIB WG mailing list as soon as possible, and have it discussed at the May 18 MIB WG meeting. 2