Protocol Action: 'Alarms in SYSLOG' to Proposed Standard

[The IESG <[e-mail]>]

The IESG has approved the following document:

- 'Alarms in SYSLOG '
   <draft-ietf-opsawg-syslog-alarm-02.txt> as a Proposed Standard


This document is the product of the Operations and Management Area Working Group. 

The IESG contact persons are Dan Romascanu and Ron Bonica.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-opsawg-syslog-alarm-02.txt

Technical Summary

   This document describes how to send alarm information in syslog.  It
   includes the mapping of ITU perceived severities onto syslog message
   fields and a number of alarm-specific SD-PARAM definitions from X.733
   and the IETF Alarm MIB.

Working Group Summary

   The document was revised based on WG feedback & the result meets
   the issues that were raised.

Document Quality

   SYSLOG is widely implemented and deployed, and the ITU severities are

   used by a number of protocols and alarm models including the IETF 
   Alarm MIB. 

Personnel

   Scott Bradner is the Document Shepherd for this document.  Dan 
   Romascanu is the Responsible Area Director.

RFC Editor Note

Please insert the following edits in the published version: 

1. In section 1, 

Old:Alarm related terminology is defined in [RFC3877].


New:Alarm related terminology is defined in [RFC3877].

SD-ID, SD-PARM and other syslog related terms are defined in [RFC5424] 


2. In section 3

Old: the SD-PARARMS are mandatory.

New: the SD-PARAMS are mandatory.

 

3. In section 3.6

Old: [RFC1738] and its updates.  In the case of an SNMP resource, the

New: [RFC3986] and its updates.  In the case of an SNMP resource, the

 

4. In section 4

Old: In this example, extended from [Syslog], the VERSION is 1 and the
New: In this example, extended from [RFC5424], the VERSION is 1 and the

OLD: 'APP-NAME is "su"'
NEW: 'APP-NAME is "evntslog"'

OLD: 'exampleSDID@0' 
NEW: 'exampleSDID@32473'

OLD: 'resourceURI =' 
NEW: 'resourceURI='

5. In section 6

Old: IANA is requested to register the SD-IDs

New: IANA is requested to register the syslog Structured Data ID Values

6. In section 8.1

Old:    [RFC1738]  Berners-Lee, T., Masinter, L., and M. McCahill,
"Uniform
              Resource Locators (URL)", RFC 1738, December 1994.

New:    [RFC3986]  Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and Masinter, L.,
"Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", RFC RFC3986, January
2005.

7. In Section 3.1: 

OLD:  If the "alarm" SD-ID is supported, the "resource" SD-PARAM MUST be
   supported. 

NEW:  If the "alarm" SD-ID is included, the "resource" SD-PARAM MUST be
   included. 

8. In Section 3.2: 

OLD: If the "alarm" SD-ID is supported, the "probableCause" SD-PARAM MUST


   be supported.

NEW: If the "alarm" SD-ID is included, the "probableCause" SD-PARAM MUST
   be included.

9. In Section 3.3: 

OLD: If the "alarm" SD-ID is supported, the "perceivedSeverity" SD-PARAM
   MUST be supported.

NEW: If the "alarm" SD-ID is included, the "perceivedSeverity" SD-PARAM
   MUST be included.

10. In Section 3.4:

OLD: If the "alarm" SD-ID is supported, the "eventType" SD-PARAM SHOULD
be supported. 

NEW: If the "alarm" SD-ID is included, the "eventType" SD-PARAM SHOULD be
included. 

11. In Section 3.5: 

OLD: If the "alarm" SD-ID is supported, the "trendIndication" SD-PARAM
   SHOULD be supported. 

NEW: If the "alarm" SD-ID is included, the "trendIndication" SD-PARAM
   SHOULD be included. 

12. In Section 3.6: 

OLD: If the "alarm" SD-ID is supported, the "resourceURI" SD-PARAM SHOULD


   be supported.

NEW: If the "alarm" SD-ID is included, the "resourceURI" SD-PARAM SHOULD
   be included.