Alert Management (alertman)

Charter 
 
Chair(s):
     Louis Steinberg  <louiss@vnet.ibm.com>
 
Network Management Area Director(s) 
     J.R. Davin  <davin@bellcore.com>
 
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Status: concluded
 
Description of Working Group:

The Alert Management Working Group is chartered with defining and
developing techniques to manage the flow of asynchronously generated
information between a manager (NOC) and its remote managed entities.
The output of this group should be fully compatible with the letter and
spirit of SNMP (RFC 1067) and CMOT (RFC 1095).


Goals and Milestones: 
 
     Done  Develop, implement, and test protocols and mechanisms to prevent a 
          managed entity from burdening a manager with an unreasonable amount 
          of unexpected network management information. This will focus on 
          controlling mechanisms once the information has been generated by a 
          remote device.                                                       

   May 90 Develop, implement, and test mechanisms to prevent a managed entity 
          from generating locally an excess of alerts to be controlled.  This 
          system will focus on how a protocol or MIB object might internally 
          prevent itself from generating an unreasonable amount of information.

     Done Write an RFC detailing the above, including examples of its 
          conforment use with both SNMP traps and CMOT events.                 

   Dec 90 Write an RFC detailing the above.  Since the implementation of these 
          mechanisms is protocol dependent, the goal of this RFC would be to 
          offer guidance only.  It would request a status of ``optional''.     


Internet-Drafts:

  No Current Internet drafts.

RFC's:

  RFC  Stat Published    Title 
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RFC1224 E    May 91     Techniques for Managing Asynchronously Generated Alerts