Network Working Group B. Wijnen Request for Comments: 3737 Lucent Technologies Category: Standards Track A. Bierman Cisco Systems, Inc. April 2004
IANA Guidelines for the Registry of Remote Monitoring (RMON) MIB modules
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Abstract
This document defines the procedures for IANA to administer and maintain the Object Identifier (OID) tree under the Remote Monitoring (rmon) root. This memo also documents the currently assigned values.
The RMONMIB Working Group so far has maintained its own registry for OID assignments for new MIB modules under the root OID for rmon [RFC2819]. This has worked reasonably well, although errors had to be corrected at a late stage one or two times, and a few now defunct assignments have been made as well.
It is also a somewhat non-standard way of doing things, because normally a new standards track MIB module will get a MIB root assigned at the time that the module is being published as part of an RFC.
This document lists the currently assigned rmon OIDs. It also describes the procedures and rules for new assignments and asks IANA to take over the responsibility for existing and future assignments.
The current assignments are not all too logical. Initially normal MIB OIDs were assigned under rmon, but at a later time the WG used the rmon root OID to create new MIB modules underneath it. Some
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people will claim 'an OID is just an OID', and while this is true, it does not make things easier if the organisation of OIDs is not logical. However, we cannot change what has been assigned in the past. From now on, only MODULE-IDENTITY macro (MIB root) assignments will be made (by IANA) under the 'rmon' node. Within a MIB module, the working group authors/editors can then assign their own OIDs according to normal procedures.
At the time of this writing, the following OIDs have been assigned and IANA has picked up this information in their public registry of assigned values. They are listed as part of the already existing smi-numbers registry at:
The assignments under ...mib-2.rmon were maintained by the RMONMIB Working Group until publication of RFC 3737. Some (early) assignments may not look all too logical. That is true, but that is history and cannot be changed. From now on, only MODULE-IDENTITY macro (MIB root) assignments will be made (by IANA) under the 'rmon' node.
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Key: nnn == { rmon nnn }
nnn descriptor OID Type Document
0 rmonEventsV2 Notifications root [RFC2819] 1 statistics OID [RFC2819] 2 history OID [RFC2819] 3 alarm OID [RFC2819] 4 hosts OID [RFC2819] 5 hostTopN OID [RFC2819] 6 matrix OID [RFC2819] 7 filter OID [RFC2819] 8 capture OID [RFC2819] 9 event OID [RFC2819] 10 tokenRing OID [RFC1513] 11 protocolDir OID [RFC2021] 12 protocolDist OID [RFC2021] 13 addressMap OID [RFC2021] 14 nlHost OID [RFC2021] 15 nlMatrix OID [RFC2021] 16 alHost OID [RFC2021] 17 alMatrix OID [RFC2021] 18 usrHistory OID [RFC2021] 19 probeConfig OID [RFC2021] 20 rmonConformance OID [RFC2021] 21 mediaIndependentStats OID [RFC3273] 22 switchRMON M-I [RFC2613] 23 apm M-I [RFC3729] 24 available 25 pmCapsMIB M-I (defunct) 26 dsmonMIB M-I [RFC3287] 27 interfaceTopNMIB M-I [RFC3144] 28 reserved for sspmMIB M-I [..rmonmib-sspm-mib-nn.txt] 29 hcAlarmMIB M-I [RFC3434] 30 reserved for tpmMIB M-I [..rmonmib-tpm-mib-nn.txt] 31 reserved for raqmon M-I [..rmonmib-raqmon-mib-nn.txt] 32 reserved for raqmonDs M-I [..rmonmib-raqmon-pdu-nn.txt]
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This document was produced as a result of discussion between the Operations and Management AD responsible for Network Management and the WG chair for the RMONMIB Working Group. Thanks to Andy Bierman for keeping and administering the registry up to this point in time.
The document has been reviewed by the RMONMIB Working Group.
[RFC1513] Waldbusser, S., "Token Ring Extensions to the Remote Network Monitoring MIB", RFC 1513, September 1993.
[RFC2021] Waldbusser, S., "Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base Version 2 using SMIv2", RFC 2021, January 1997.
[RFC2434] Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 2434, October 1998.
[RFC2613] Waterman, R., Lahaye, B., Romascanu, D. and S. Waldbusser, "Remote Network Monitoring MIB Extensions for Switched Networks Version 1.0", RFC 2613, June 1999.
[RFC2819] Waldbusser, S., "Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base", STD 59, RFC 2819, May 2000.
[RFC3144] Romascanu, D., "Remote Monitoring MIB Extensions for Interface Parameters Monitoring", RFC 3144, August 2001.
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[RFC3273] Waldbusser, S., "Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base for High Capacity Networks", RFC 3273, July 2002.
[RFC3287] Bierman, A., "Remote Monitoring MIB Extensions for Differentiated Services", RFC 3287, July 2002.
[RFC3434] Bierman, A. and K. McCloghrie, "Remote Monitoring MIB Extensions for High Capacity Alarms", RFC 3434, December 2002.
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