Next Generation Structure of Management Information for the Internet

  • Jürgen Schönwälder
  • Frank Strauß
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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.

Keywords

Management Information Internet Engineer Task Force Speci Cation Network Management System Common Information Model 
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© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999

Authors and Affiliations

  • Jürgen Schönwälder
    • 1
  • Frank Strauß
    • 1
  1. 1.Technical University BraunschweigBraunschweigGermany

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