Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!mprgate.mpr.ca!neutron!ng From: ng@neutron.mpr.ca (Steve Ng) Subject: LAN management Standards. Message-ID: <1991Jun14.162029.26237@mprgate.mpr.ca> Keywords: LAN, Standards, SNMP, CMOT, CMOL, CMIP Sender: news@mprgate.mpr.ca Reply-To: ng@neutron.mpr.ca Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd. Date: Fri, 14 Jun 91 16:20:29 GMT Dear LAN management gurus, I am currently working on a paper describing the emerging LAN management standards and technologies. Basically, there are four kinds of protocol suites that people have used to manage their LANs: SNMP - Internet standards (most popular) CMOT - CMIP over TCP/IP, defined by a working group of IETF, considered to be a migration stack to full CMIP. CMOL - CMIP over LLC, defined by IBM and 3Com., provided a less expensive method to run CMIP. CMIP - ISO standards, too heavy on some of the LAN devices. There are currently tons of products supporting SNMP either in the agent, manager or both configurations. I am interested in finding out any products that are supporting (or planning to support) the other protocol suites. You can either email me or post on this newsgroup. I will post a summary when I have collected enough information. (If you don't want to be included in the summary, please indicate that in your response). Also, I heard that there is on-line access to MIBs (besides those standard ones that are described by RFCs) such as vendor's extension MIBs . Is that true and where can I ftp them? Thank you very much for any related information. Steve. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Ng INTERNET: ng@mprgate.mpr.ca or ng%mprgate@cs.ubc.ca MPR Teltech Ltd., UUCP: ...!ubc-cs!mprgate!ng 8999 Nelson Way, CSNET: ng%mprgate.mpr.ca@RELAY.CS.NET Burnaby, B.C., PHONENET: (604) 293-5463 Canada. (V5A 4B5) FAX: (604) 293-5787 --------------------------------------------------------------------------