Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!CHEETAH.NYSER.NET!mrose From: mrose@CHEETAH.NYSER.NET (Marshall Rose) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Looking for SNMP Message-ID: <3630.624796001@cheetah.nyser.net> Date: 19 Oct 89 10:26:41 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: tcp-ip@NIC.DDN.MIL Organization: The Internet Lines: 56 > there are atleast three public domain snmp implementations: mit's, > cmu's and nysernet's (agent only). Just as a clarification: NYSERNet has a proprietary implementation of the SNMP which consists of an agent along with many, many tools for running a network management station. In addition, a second, completely independent implementation of an SNMP agent was done for 4BSD/OSI under partial support from US DARPA. This latter work is what Hein{nen Juha means by "nysernet's (agent only)". It is important not to confuse the two as they serve entirely different purposes: - As with all NMS implementations, the NYSERnet proprietary implementation is there to provide NMS functionality to manage your network. - In contrast, the 4BSD/OSI implementation (which appears in the next release of the ISODE), was written in order to maximize the number of hosts in the Internet that are network manageable. Since Berkeley UNIX tends to be what the majority of platforms are based on, producing an agent for 4BSD should help in this regard. A number of people felt that network managability was such a critical problem, that this mandated the generation of an openly available implementation of an SNMP agent that would work with the next release of BSD UNIX (whenever that is). Since that release will contain OSI protocols, it was also felt that support for managing those protocols with the SNMP would also be a good thing. So, (in my opinion) NYSERNet did a very forward-thinking thing by allowing me to write an SNMP agent for 4BSD/OSI and then put it in the ISODE. - I hear lots of good things about both the MIT and CMU public domain implementations of the SNMP, which both include an agent and NMS tools. These are meant to be highly portable implementations which vendors (among others) can deploy on various platforms. As such, they really serve a different purpose than the 4BSD/OSI implementation of the SNMP. /mtr ps: this is only one of many forays the SNMP crowd--a large collection of people from all walks of life (researchers, users, providers, vendors) and with all kinds of interests (routers, workstations, bridges, concentrators, etc.)--will be engaging in over the next year. Look for the SNMP to be at the center of dozens of interesting management solutions as people start getting together to solve various problems with network management. (A shameless plug from the chair of the SNMP Working Group!) pps: I am sensitive to the "appropriate use" issue on the net, and was very careful not to make this sound like an advertisement for my employer. But then again, when you do forwarding-thinking things, a little praise should be forthcoming. /mtr