Structure of Management Information Version 2 (SMIv2) (RFC2578)
Original Publication Date: 1999-Apr-01
Included in the Prior Art Database: 2000-Sep-13
Publishing Venue
Internet Society Requests For Comment (RFCs)
Related People
K. McCloghrie: AUTHOR [+3]
Abstract
Management information is viewed as a collection of managed objects, residing in a virtual information store, termed the Management Information Base (MIB). Collections of related objects are defined in MIB modules. These modules are written using an adapted subset of OSI's Abstract Syntax Notation One, ASN.1 (1988) [1]. It is the purpose of this document, the Structure of Management Information (SMI), to define that adapted subset, and to assign a set of associated administrative values.
Network Working Group Editors of this version:
Request for Comments: 2578 K. McCloghrie
STD: 58 Cisco Systems
Obsoletes: 1902 D. Perkins
Category: Standards Track SNMPinfo
J. Schoenwaelder
TU Braunschweig
Authors of previous version:
J. Case
SNMP Research
K. McCloghrie
Cisco Systems
M. Rose
First Virtual Holdings
S. Waldbusser
International Network Services
April 1999
Structure of Management Information Version 2 (SMIv2)
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rights Reserved.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction .................................................3
1.1 A Note on Terminology ......................................4
2 Definitions ..................................................4
2.1 The MODULE-IDENTITY macro ..................................5
2.2 Object Names and Syntaxes ..................................5
2.3 The OBJECT-TYPE macro ......................................8
2.5 The NOTIFICATION-TYPE macro ...............................10
2.6 Administrative Identifiers ................................11
3 Information Modules .........................................11
3.1 Macro Invocation ..........................................12
3.1.1 Textual Values and Strings ..............................13
RFC 2578 SMIv2 April 1999
3.2 IMPORTing Symbols .........................................14
3.3 Exporting Symbols .................................