Protocol Action: Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol to Draft Standard
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Subject: Protocol Action: Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol to Draft Standard
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The IESG has elevated the Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol (RFC2741) and Definitions of Managed Objects for Extensible SNMP Agents (RFC 2742) to Draft Standard. These documents were the product of the SNMP Agent Extensibility Working Group. The contact persons are Bert Wijnen and Randy Bush. Technical Summary RFC2741 defines a standardized framework for extensible SNMP agents. It defines processing entities called master agents and subagents, a protocol (AgentX) used to communicate between them, and the elements of procedure by which the extensible agent processes SNMP protocol messages. RFC2742 defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB) for use with network management protocols in the Internet community. In particular, it describes objects managing SNMP agents that use the Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol. Working Group Summary The working group collected 13 implementation and interoperability reports. The WG implementation report from the WG chair is at: http://www.ietf.org/IESG/Implementations/AGENTX-IMPLEMENTATION These reports demonstrated that all AgentX features have been implemented by two or more independent implementations and that sub-agents from one implementation are able to interoperate with master agents from an independent implementation. A number of the implementations are found in well-known commercial SNMP products; several are found in widely distributed academic and/or "open source" projects; implementations beyond those with filed reports are known to exist. Neither the referenced implementation reports nor the WG Last Call identified any changes to the these RFCs that are required for implementation or interoperability. The working group consensus is that these documents are ready for advancement to Draft Standard. Protocol Quality The documents have been reviewed for the IESG by Randy Bush and Bert Wijnen