RFC 3165 and RFC 3231 implementation reports

Juergen Schoenwaelder <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.disman
Message-ID <[email protected]>
A long time has passed since Randy posted his request for implementation
reports. I am sorry for being so late to followup on this.

/js

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Juergen Schoenwaelder		    International University Bremen
<http://www.eecs.iu-bremen.de/>	    P.O. Box 750 561, 28725 Bremen, Germany
RFC3165-report.txt (text/plain, 1.5 KB)
Implementation Survey for RFC 3165,
Definitions of Managed Objects for the Delegation of Management Scripts

Module: DISMAN-SCRIPT-MIB
Implementation Source:			TU Braunschweig, Germany
					NEC Research Heidelberg, Germany
Management Application / Agent:		NET-SNMP agent

GROUPs:
smLanguageGroup (y/n): y
smScriptGroup2 (y/n): y
smLaunchGroup2 (y/n): y
smRunGroup2 (y/n): y
smNotificationsGroup2 (y,n): n
smCodeGroup (y,n): n

OBJECTs:
smScriptSource (ro/rw): rw
smCodeText (ro/rw): __
smLaunchArgument maximum size: SNMP_MAX_LEN
smRunArgument maximum size: SNMP_MAX_LEN
smRunResult maximum size: SNMP_MAX_LEN
smRunState suspension permitted? (y,n): y (depends on the runtime system)

Deployement / Operational Experience:

SNMP_MAX_LEN defaults to 1500 in NET-SNMP 5.1.1. The source code has
been downloaded a number of times. It is unclear what people really
did with it in production networks. The software package includes a
manager-side graphical user interface written in Java called smurf.
In addition, some commands have been added to the scli SNMP command
line interface in order to interact with the agent. The agent has been
used in a research project to distribute, start, control and terminate
policy scripts.

Comments:

The SNMP engine used for this application does not provide an easy way
to record the credentials during the processing of a set request. Hence,
the implementation cheats to some extend by guessing credentials, which
of course is not a good thing to do. It is unclear whether newer versions
of NET-SNMP would allow to handle this correctly.
RFC3231-report.txt (text/plain, 901 B)
Implementation Survey for RFC 3231,
Definitions of Managed Objects for Scheduling Management Operations


Module: DISMAN-SCHEDULE-MIB
Implementation Source:			TU Braunschweig, Germany
Management Application / Agent:		NET-SNMP agent


GROUPs
schedGroup2 (y/n): y
schedNotificationsGroup (y/n): n
schedCalendarGroup (y,n): y

Deployment / Operational Experience:

Some commands have been implemented as part of the scli SNMP command
line interface to interact with the agent. Interoperability tests with
other implementations have not been performed.

Comments:

The SNMP engine used for this application does not provide an easy way
to record the credentials during the processing of a set request. Hence,
the implementation cheats to some extend by guessing credentials, which
of course is not a good thing to do. It is unclear whether newer versions
of NET-SNMP would allow to handle this correctly.
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