Remote Performance Management BOF (rperfman) Thursday, March 30 at 1530-1730 ============================ CHAIR: Randy Presuhn DESCRIPTION: Work in several IETF working groups addresses issues relevant to remote performance management. These include the ippm, bmwg, rmonmib, and disman working groups. The purpose of this BOF is threefold. First, it will help in assessing the need for additional work in the area not already covered by existing work items. Secondly, it will aid in determining whether there is sufficient interest (and resources). Finally, it will give interested parties an opportunity to voice their views on what would be an appropriate home for this work, whether under the existing charter of an existing WG, as an extension to some WG's charter, or as a separate working group. AGENDA: 1) Administration a) introductions b) appointment of minute-taker c) circulation of sign-up sheet d) adjustments to the agenda i) additions & removals ii) time allocation 2) background a) definition of useful metrics and techniques i) bmwg ii) ippm iii) others b) types of instrumentation i) passive, e.g. classic RMON ii) active, e.g. disman remote operations (ping) iii) built-in, e.g. applmib, ARM iv) others? c) access to instrumentation i) supporting infrastructure, e.g. disman schedule, script ii) generic (e.g., classic RMON, applmib) iii) specific (e.g. web server mib, possibly rmon mib work item) iv) enterprise MIBs (all of the above :-) 3) detailed presentations 4) requirements discussion a) issues i) configuration management issues with active probes ii) relating measurements obtained from various types of instrumentation b) possible deliverables i) informational requirements document ii) informational document on relating measurements from different instrumentation types iii) definition of (MIB?) for control of remote performance management tasks iv) definition of information gathered by these tasks 5) possible paths forward, if interest warrants: a) a new WG dedicated to this topic, especially if identification of specific metrics and statistics might be relevant b) disman (if we focus on infrastructure to perform distributed monitoring) (would be charter addition) c) applmib (if the focus is on application performance, rather than more generic possibilities) (would be charter addition) d) RMON (would be charter addition) e) something else? 6) wrap-up a) assignment of action items b) reminders to presenters c) collection of sign-up sheet