SNMP Agent Extensibility (agentx) --------------------------------- Charter Last Modified: 2002-05-24 Current Status: Concluded Working Group Chair(s): Bob Natale Operations and Management Area Director(s): Randy Bush Bert Wijnen Operations and Management Area Advisor: Bert Wijnen Editor(s): Mark Ellison Mailing Lists: General Discussion:agentx@dorothy.bmc.com To Subscribe: agentx-request@dorothy.bmc.com In Body: Subscribe. MUST include Subject: subscribe Archive: ftp://amethyst.bmc.com/pub/agentx/archives Description of Working Group: The goal of this working group is to define standards-track technology for SNMP Agent extensibility. The resulting technology specification will allow independently developed sub-agents to communicate with a master-agent running on an Internet device. The technology specification will consist of: o (mandatory) a platform-independent protocol which supports intra-agent communication within a device or local area network; o (optional) a MIB module, which, when implemented by a master-agent, allows an SNMP-based management application to monitor and control the intra-agent communication service; and, o (optional) a programmatic interface to the services offered by that protocol. The working group is explicitly directed to develop a solution which is adequate to achieve transparency with respect to whether a SNMP request is processed by a master-agent and/or one or more sub-agents; simultaneously, the working group is further directed to use good engineering judgement is developing an approach with the smallest reasonable "footprint" to achieve intra-agent communication. As a consequence, if the working group may choose to avoid complete transparency, if, at its discretion, this proves too costly. In this case, the working group should document its decision for this engineering trade-off. Although the working group will solicit existing specifications and experience in this area, it will produce a vendor-neutral technology specification. Goals and Milestones: Done Publication of AgentX protocol specification as Proposed Done Publication of AgentX MIB specification as a Proposed Standard Done Implementation reports formally solicited Done Interoperability reports formally solicited Done Implementation and interoperability reports summarized (by WG Chair) and assessed via WG e-mail discussion Done All open issues resolved Done Modifications (if any) to documents (RFC2741 and RFC2742) completed Done Decision to advance or recycle made by WG and handed off to IESGfor action Done Request for advancement of RFC 2741 and 2742 made to IESG JAN 02 Shutdown WG or re-charter Internet-Drafts: No Current Internet-Drafts. Request For Comments: RFC Stat Published Title ------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------ RFC2257 PS JAN 98 Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol Version 1 RFC2741 PS JAN 00 Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol RFC2742 PS JAN 00 Definitions of Managed Objects for Extensible SNMP Agents