XYPLEX BOOTSTRAP CLIENT MIB 22 May 91 Definitions of Managed Objects for Xyplex Bootstrap Clients 22 May 1991 Xyplex Document Number 420-0537-A Xyplex, Inc. 330 Codman Hill Road Boxborough, MA 01719 (508) 264-9900 support@xyplex.com 1. Status of this Memo This document is submitted to the Internet MIB repository and to Xyplex users as a Xyplex private extension to the SNMP MIB. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Please express comments to Xyplex. 2. Abstract This memo defines a private portion of the Management Information Base (MIB), within the Xyplex branch, for use [Page 1] XYPLEX BOOTSTRAP CLIENT MIB 22 May 91 with SNMP over various transport services, such as UDP or Ethernet. In particular, it defines objects for managing a client of Xyplex bootstrap service. This memo does not specify a standard for the Internet community. It describes a standard for Xyplex products. [Page 2] XYPLEX BOOTSTRAP CLIENT MIB 22 May 91 3. Historical Perspective As reported in RFC 1052, IAB Recommendations for the Development of Internet Network Management Standards [1], a two-prong strategy for network management of TCP/IP-based internets was undertaken. In the short-term, the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), defined in RFC 1067, was to be used to manage nodes in the Internet community. In the long-term, the use of the OSI network management framework was to be examined. Two documents were produced to define the management information: RFC 1065, which defined the Structure of Management Information (SMI), and RFC 1066, which defined the Management Information Base (MIB). Both of these documents were designed so as to be compatible with both the SNMP and the OSI network management framework. This strategy was quite successful in the short-term: Internet-based network management technology was fielded, by both the research and commercial communities, within a few months. As a result of this, portions of the Internet community became network manageable in a timely fashion. As reported in RFC 1109, Report of the Second Ad Hoc Network Management Review Group [2], the requirements of the SNMP and the OSI network management frameworks were more different than anticipated. As such, the requirement for compatibility between the SMI/MIB and both frameworks was suspended. This action permitted the operational network management framework, based on the SNMP, to respond to new operational needs in the Internet community by producing MIB-II. In May of 1990, the core documents were elevated to "Standard Protocols" with "Recommended" status. As such, the Internet- standard network management framework consists of: Structure and Identification of Management Information for TCP/IP-based internets, RFC 1155 [4], which describes how managed objects contained in the MIB are defined; Management Information Base for Network Management of TCP/IP-based internets, which describes the managed objects contained in the MIB, RFC 1156 [5]; and, the Simple Network Management Protocol, RFC 1157 [6], which defines the protocol used to manage these objects. Consistent with the IAB directive to produce simple, [Page 3] XYPLEX BOOTSTRAP CLIENT MIB 22 May 91 workable systems in the short-term, the list of managed objects defined in the Internet-standard MIB was derived by taking only those elements which are considered essential. However, the SMI defined three extensibility mechanisms: one, the addition of new standard objects through the definitions of new versions of the MIB; two, the addition of widely-available but non- standard objects through the experimental subtree; and three, the addition of private objects through the enterprises subtree. Such additional objects can not only be used for vendor-specific elements, but also for experimentation as required to further the knowledge of which other objects are essential. This memo defines extensions to the MIB using the third method. It contains definitions of managed objects in various Xyplex products, using ASN.1 conventions specified in [10]. [Page 4] XYPLEX BOOTSTRAP CLIENT MIB 22 May 91 4. Objects Managed objects are accessed via a virtual information store, termed the Management Information Base or MIB. Objects in the MIB are defined using the subset of Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) [7] defined in the SMI. In particular, each object has a name, a syntax, and an encoding. The name is an object identifier, an administratively assigned name, which specifies an object type. The object type together with an object instance serves to uniquely identify a specific instantiation of the object. For human convenience, we often use a textual string, termed the OBJECT DESCRIPTOR, to also refer to the object type. The syntax of an object type defines the abstract data structure corresponding to that object type. The ASN.1 language is used for this purpose. However, the SMI [4] purposely restricts the ASN.1 constructs which may be used. These restrictions are explicitly made for simplicity. The encoding of an object type is simply how that object type is represented using the object type's syntax. Implicitly tied to the notion of an object type's syntax and encoding is how the object type is represented when being transmitted on the network. The SMI specifies the use of the basic encoding rules of ASN.1 [8], subject to the additional requirements imposed by the SNMP. 4.1. Format of Definitions Section 6 contains the specification of all object types contained in this MIB module. The object types are defined using the conventions defined in the SMI, as amended by the extensions specified in [9]. [Page 5] XYPLEX BOOTSTRAP CLIENT MIB 22 May 91 5. Overview The Bootstrap Client MIB applies to Xyplex systems that use the Xyplex bootstrap service to dump or load their system image, while that system is incapable of running full- featured software. Typically this is while the system is running from Read-Only Memory (ROM), and the MIB available will be only the Boostrap Client MIB. The Bootstrap Client MIB is not intended for use when a full-function Xyplex SNMP MIB is available. The Bootstrap Client MIB is mandatory for all Xyplex systems that use the bootstrap service. Widespread availability of the Bootstrap Client MIB is likely to be slow, as it requires changes to ROM code. The MIB comprises one base object. As a convenience to the reader, the base object is: bootClientStatus [Page 6] XYPLEX BOOTSTRAP CLIENT MIB 22 May 91 6. Definitions XYPLEX-BOOT-CLIENT-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN IMPORTS enterprises FROM RFC1155-SMI DisplayString FROM RFC1158-MIB OBJECT-TYPE FROM RFC1212-CONCISE-MIB; xyplex OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { enterprises 33 } bootClient OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { xyplex 12 } -- This MIB module uses the extended OBJECT-TYPE macro as -- defined in [9] -- this is the MIB module for clients of Xyplex bootstrap -- service [Page 7] XYPLEX BOOTSTRAP CLIENT MIB 22 May 91 -- the Bootstrap Client group -- Implementation of this group is mandatory for all Xyplex -- systems that use the Xyplex bootstrap service bootClientStatus OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DisplayString (SIZE (0..1400)) ACCESS read-only STATUS mandatory DESCRIPTION "The overall status of the bootstrapping operation, including, for example, what is presently happening and error information." ::= { bootClient 1 } END [Page 8] XYPLEX BOOTSTRAP CLIENT MIB 22 May 91 7. References [1] V. Cerf, IAB Recommendations for the Development of Internet Network Management Standards. Internet Working Group Request for Comments 1052. Network Information Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, California, (April, 1988). [2] V. Cerf, Report of the Second Ad Hoc Network Management Review Group, Internet Working Group Request for Comments 1109. Network Information Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, California, (August, 1989). [3] M.T. Rose (editor), Management Information Base for Network Management of TCP/IP-based internets, Internet Working Group Request for Comments 1158. Network Information Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, California, (May, 1990). [4] M.T. Rose and K. McCloghrie, Structure and Identification of Management Information for TCP/IP-based internets, Internet Working Group Request for Comments 1155. Network Information Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, California, (May, 1990). [5] K. McCloghrie and M.T. Rose, Management Information Base for Network Management of TCP/IP-based internets:MIB-II, Internet Working Group Request for Comments 1213. Network Information Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, California, (March 1991). [6] J.D. Case, M.S. Fedor, M.L. Schoffstall, and J.R. Davin, Simple Network Management Protocol, Internet Working Group Request for Comments 1157. Network Information Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, California, (May, 1990). [7] Information processing systems - Open Systems Interconnection - Specification of Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1), International Organization for Standardization. International Standard 8824, (December, 1987). [8] Information processing systems - Open Systems Interconnection - Specification of Basic Encoding Rules for Abstract Notation One (ASN.1), International Organization for Standardization. International Standard 8825, [Page 9] XYPLEX BOOTSTRAP CLIENT MIB 22 May 91 (December, 1987). [9] M.T. Rose, K. McCloghrie (editors), Towards Concise MIB Definitions, Internet Working Group Request for Comments 1212. Network Information Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, California, (March, 1991). [10] Definitions of Managed Objects for Xyplex Systems, Xyplex document number 420-0545, (August, 1991). [Page 10]