Next Generation Structure of Management Information for the Internet

Authors:
Jürgen Schönwälder;Frank Strauß
Affiliations:
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Venue:
DSOM '99 Proceedings of the 10th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management: Active Technologies for Network and Service Management
Year:
1999

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Abstract

Management Information Bases (MIBs) for use with the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) are defined in a language called the Structure of Management Information (SMI). This language, based on an adapted subset of ASN.1 (1988), has been a constant source of confusion for Internet MIB designers, MIB implementors and users of network management products. This paper presents work towards a new SMI, tentatively called SMIng, which addresses some of the shortcomings of the current SMI. We describe the design of an embeddable C library to access SMI definitions as well as some tools using this library.