CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_


Reported by Michael Erlinger/Micro Technology

RLANMIB Minutes

This was the first meeting of this Working Group.  The activities
centered on getting to know one another and brainstorming on the concept
of remote LAN monitoring and associated problems.  The following lists
some of the major discussion topics:


  o The features of two monitoring boxes, HP LAN Probe and Novell
    LANtern, were presented by members of the audience as
    representative of the marketplace.
  o The concepts of LAN monitoring and packet capture with packet
    analysis (e.g., SNIFFER) were discussed.  Packet capture and
    analysis by remote LAN probes seemed to stretch the data transfer
    capabilities of SNMP.
  o The concept of filtering was discussed in great detail.  In
    particular, the approaches to filtering by various manufacturers
    and the different approaches to combining filters and traps.
  o Relationships to other IETF Working Groups were discussed and the
    need for close interaction was noted by all.
  o Finally, there was much discussion about remote LAN monitoring and
    SNMP. In particular:  do smart agents violate the spirit of SNMP?
    How does a large amount of agent-captured data move to an NMS? and
    how can various probes and NMSs be synchronized within a particular
    LAN?


There was no attempt to reach any consensus on these issues, but the
group did come up with the following action items:

 1. The list of attendees would be sent to rlanmib-request for addition
    to the mailing list.  Done.
 2. The group would like to change its name to the Remote LAN
    Management Working Group and make appropriate charter changes.
    Mike Erlinger took on this assignment.
 3. Steve Waldbusser will attempt to generate a review document on the
    various network probes.  He will try to discern the common features
    of these devices.
 4. Mike Erlinger will attempt to generate a review document on the
    concept of filters as they apply to remote probes/agents.

Attendees


Scott Bradner            [email protected]
Phil Budne               [email protected]
Martin Dubetz            [email protected]

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Mike Erlinger            [email protected]
Michael Fidler           [email protected]
Olafur Gundmundsson      [email protected]
Ken Jones                uunet!konkord!ksj
Kathy Kerby              [email protected]
Jim Kinder               [email protected]
Paul Langille            quiver::[email protected]
Cyndi Mills              [email protected]
Robert Morgan            [email protected]
Robert Pinna             bwp!hpctlb.hp.com
K.K. Ramakrishnan        rama%[email protected]
Marshall Rose            [email protected]
Glenn Trewitt            [email protected]
Sudhanshu Verma          [email protected]
Mark Wood                mark1@iw/cs.att.com



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