Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!geneva.rutgers.edu!hedrick From: hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.proteon Subject: Re: SNMP variables for DECnet? Message-ID:Date: 14 Aug 89 20:45:53 GMT References: <8908141259.AA22101@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 16 I am responsible for the original DECnet code used by cisco. Several months ago, I asked several groups, including this one, for some help in defining SNMP (at that time SGMP) variables for monitoring DECnet. I had in mind writing an RFC defining a DECnet extension to the MIB. However in order to do this, I need to have some idea of what variables it makes sense to monitor in other implementations. I could certainly propose a MIB extension based on the data collected by the cisco implementation. But that seems silly. That can just as well be put into cisco's private name space. It only makes sense to talk about an extension to the MIB if we find a reasonable degree of commonality among several implementations. I'd be happy to list the data currently collected by cisco's DECnet implementation. I can also make a reasonable guess as to how difficult it would be to collect other kinds of data. If someone would be willing to do something similar for the Proteon implementation, then I think we could do something useful.