Protocol Action: Remote Network Monitoring MIB Protocol Identifiers to Proposed Standard

[The IESG <[e-mail]>]

The IESG has approved the following two Internet-Drafts:

 1. Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base version 2
<draft-ietf-rmonmib-rmonmib-v2-03.txt>

 2. Remote Network Monitoring MIB Protocol Identifiers
<draft-ietf-rmonmib-rmonprot-03.txt>


as Proposed Standards. These documents are the product of the Remote
Network Monitoring Working Group. The IESG contact person is Deirdre
Kostick.


Technical Summary

  The Remote Network Monitoring MIB (RMON) as defined in RFC 1757,
  provides an NMS with mechanisms to monitor and collect large amounts
  of data about the traffic utilization of particular subnetworks, by
  promiscuously monitoring the MAC frames transmitted onto those
  subnetworks.

  RMON-2 builds upon the RFC 1757 standard, enabling several network
  management functions, such as fault monitoring, application monitoring,
  capacity and network planning, and remote polling.

  The new MIB extends many monitoring capabilities beyond the MAC
  layer, up through the application layer. Numerous improvements such
  as probe configuration, better resource management, and faster table
  uploads, have also been made to increase the robustness and
  interoperability of RMON implementations.


Working Group Summary

  The process of evaluating and selecting a subset of features for
  development out of the many different proposals was the most
  contentious aspect of the WG effort.

  The following features were the least contentious:
    * extend the basic RMON-1 functions beyond the MAC layer
    * use a centralized protocol directory architecture
    * add user-specified history collection
    * reduce table retrieval times
    * increase NMS control of probe resources
    * add a trap destination table for RMON traps

  These features were more contentious:
    * include application-layer matrix-topN-reporting
    * improve RMON filtering capabilities
    * include general probe configuration capabilities

  The MIB and Protocol Identifiers documents reflect the consensus of
  the Working Group.


Protocol Quality

  The RMON-2 MIB and RMON Protocol Identifiers documents were reviewed
  for the IETF NM Area by Jeff Johnson, and for the IESG by Deirdre
  Kostick.