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        RFC 2788

        Title:      Network Services Monitoring MIB
        Author(s):  N. Freed, S. Kille
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       March 2000
        Mailbox:    ned.freed@innosoft.com, S.Kille@isode.com
        Pages:      22
        Characters: 43906
        Obsoletes:  2248
        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-madman-netsm-mib-07.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2788.txt


There are a wide range of networked applications for which it is
appropriate to provide SNMP monitoring of their network usage.  This
includes applications using both TCP/IP and OSI networking.  This
document defines a MIB which contains the elements common to the
monitoring of any network service application.  This information
includes a table of all monitorable network service applications, a
count of the associations (connections) to each application, and basic
information about the parameters and status of each
application-related association.

This MIB may be used on its own for any application, and for most
simple applications this will suffice.  This MIB is also designed to
serve as a building block which can be used in conjunction with
application-specific monitoring and management.  Two examples of this
are MIBs defining additional variables for monitoring a Message
Transfer Agent (MTA) service or a Directory Service Agent (DSA)
service. It is expected that further MIBs of this nature will be
specified. 

This MIB does not attempt to provide facilities for management of the
host or hosts the network service application runs on, nor does it
provide facilities for monitoring applications that provide something
other than a network service.  Host resource and general application
monitoring is handled by either the Host Resources MIB [1] or the
application MIB [2].

This document is a product of the Mail and Directory Management
Working Group of the IETF.  

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for
the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions
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