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From: ng@neutron.mpr.ca (Steve Ng)
Subject: LAN management Standards.
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.162029.26237@mprgate.mpr.ca>
Keywords: LAN, Standards, SNMP, CMOT, CMOL, CMIP
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Reply-To: ng@neutron.mpr.ca
Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd.
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 91 16:20:29 GMT

Dear LAN management gurus,

I am currently working on a paper describing the emerging LAN management 
standards and technologies. Basically, there are four kinds of protocol suites
that people have used to manage their LANs:
SNMP - Internet standards (most popular)
CMOT - CMIP over TCP/IP, defined by a working group of IETF, considered 
       to be a migration stack to full CMIP.
CMOL - CMIP over LLC, defined by IBM and 3Com., provided a less expensive 
       method to run CMIP.
CMIP - ISO standards, too heavy on some of the LAN devices.

There are currently tons of products supporting SNMP either in the agent, 
manager or both configurations. I am interested in finding out any products 
that are supporting (or planning to support) the other protocol suites. 
You can either email me or post on this newsgroup.  I will post a summary
when I have collected enough information. (If you don't want to be included
in the summary, please indicate that in your response).  Also, I heard that
there is on-line access to MIBs (besides those standard ones that are
described by RFCs) such as vendor's extension MIBs . Is that true and where 
can I ftp them?  Thank you very much for any related information.

Steve.


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