Re: Proxy SNMP Agents

"James R." (Chuck)Davin <jrd@allspice.lcs.mit.edu> Tue, 16 April 1991 17:54 UTC

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From: "James R. Davin" <jrd@allspice.lcs.mit.edu>
To: "Andy Weingarten (ext 793" <uncng!andy@uunet.uu.net>
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Subject: Re: Proxy SNMP Agents
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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1991 13:35:51 -0400
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Section 3.3.1 of draft-ietf-snmpsec-admin-00.txt (available as an internet
draft) speaks to this question.

  From:  uncng!andy@uunet.uu.net (Andy Weingarten (ext 793))
  Date:  Sun, 14 Apr 91 11:20:27 PDT

  




          Is there a standard or one emerging for SNMP proxy management
+ ?                
          In particular, consider the following case. One has an FDDI
          ring (SMT version 6.2) where some of the network devices
          support SNMP and some don't. All the devices are required to
          support SMT frame management, but not necessarily SNMP. The
          devices that support SNMP could act as proxies for managing
          those devices that only support SMT frame management. The 
          management station could issue FDDI MIB requests to the proxy
          which would, in turn, issue SMT frame management requests to
          the non-SNMP device. It is my understanding that the FDDI MIB
          has been devised with SMT frame management in mind so a mappi
+ ng
          of SNMP requests to SMT frame management requests is given. 
          The question is whether a method exists or is being evolved t
+ o 
          enable SNMP agents to act as proxies?

Proxy SNMP Agents Andy Weingarten (ext 793
Re: Proxy SNMP Agents Frank Kastenholz
Re: Proxy SNMP Agents James R. Davin (Chuck)