DiffServ Policy MIB Module SNMPCONF WG March 28, 2000 Harrie Hazewinkel David Partain

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DiffServ Policy MIB ModuleSNMPCONF WGMarch 28,
2000Harrie HazewinkelDavid Partain
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Current Status

• draft-ietf-snmpconf-diffpolicy-00.txt
• a skeleton that still needs to be filled in

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Input to Our Effort

• PIB work in the RAP and DiffServ WGs
• goals are similar to the PIB work but without
  using a new framework
• is translation of PIBs sufficient?
• DiffServ MIB module being worked on within
  DiffServ WG
• Policy-based Management MIB module discussed
  previously

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Goals of the DiffServ Policy MIB Module

• Network-level policy-based configuration of
  elements supporting DiffServ.
• To provide a level of policy abstraction above
  the DiffServ MIB module
• mapping tables
• DiffServ configuration template

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Input to and Output from the DiffServ Policy MIB
Module
SNMP Agent
Policy-Based MIB Module
DiffServ Policy MIB Module
DiffServ MIB Module
Instrumentation
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Food for Thought

• Place for user-defined default values for a
  policy
• Presentation of those ideas on Thursday

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Whats to be Done?

• What are the abstraction needs?
• understand what can be or needs to be abstracted
  from the DiffServ MIB
• Relationship with the Policy-based Management MIB
• Put meat on the skeleton
• Alignment with other WGs

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Input from the Community

• SNMPCONF WG input
• DiffServ, Policy, and RAP WG involvement
• DiffServ abstractions
• Policy-based management application developers
• Cooperation with other efforts

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Upcoming Milestones

• Post draft during next week
• Collect working group input
• Revise and post draft by Friday before interim
  meeting