The IESG has approved the following document: - 'The Virtual Fabrics MIB ' <draft-ietf-imss-fc-vf-mib-02.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Internet and Management Support for Storage Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Dan Romascanu and David Kessens. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-imss-fc-vf-mib-02.txt Technical Summary This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB) for use with network management protocols in the Internet community. In particular, it describes managed objects for information related to the Fibre Channel network's Virtual Fabric function. Working Group Summary There seems to be wide support in the WG for this document, although the participation in the WG was thin lately. Protocol Quality The document was reviewed by Bert Wijnen on behalf of the IESG. It was reviewed also in Technical Committee T11 (the official Fibre Channel standards body). T11 voted to recommend a prior version of this document to the IETF. Keith McCloghrie is acting as MIB expert for the IMSS WG. Note to RFC Editor 1. In the title of Section 6 OLD: 6. The T11-FC-IRTUAL-FABRIC-MIB Module NEW: 6. The T11-FC-VIRTUAL-FABRIC-MIB Module 2. Add to Section 1 the following: The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119. 3. Add a normative reference to RFC 2119 4. In Section 5 OLD: This MIB module provides the means for monitoring the operation of, and configuring some parameters of, one or more instances of Fibre Channel Virtual Fabric functionality. (Note that there are no definitions in this MIB module of "managed actions" which can be invoked via SNMP.) NEW: This MIB module provides the means for monitoring the operation of, and configuring some parameters of, one or more instances of Fibre Channel Virtual Fabric functionality. (Note that there are no definitions in this MIB module of "managed actions" which can be invoked via a remote network management protocol such as SNMP.) 5. In Section 5.1: OLD: The object, fcmInstanceIndex, is IMPORTed from the FC-MGMT- MIB [RFC4044] as the index value to uniquely identify each Fibre Channel management instance within the same SNMP context ([RFC3411] section 3.3.1). NEW: The object, fcmInstanceIndex, is IMPORTed from the FC-MGMT- MIB [RFC4044] as the index value to uniquely identify each Fibre Channel management instance, for example within the same SNMP context ([RFC3411] section 3.3.1). 6. In Section 6: OLD: This table augments the fcmSwitchTable, i.e., every entry in this table has a one-to-one correspondence with an entry in the fcmSwitchTable. At the time when the fcmSwitchTable was defined, it applied to physical switches. With the definition and usage of virtual switches, fcmSwitchTable now applies to virtual switches which (unlike physical fabrics) are create-able via SNMP. So, this entry contains a RowStatus object (to allow the creation of a virtual switch), as well as a StorageType object. Obviously, if a row is created/deleted in this table, the corresponding row in the fcmSwitchTable will be created/deleted." NEW: This table augments the fcmSwitchTable, i.e., every entry in this table has a one-to-one correspondence with an entry in the fcmSwitchTable. At the time when the fcmSwitchTable was defined, it applied to physical switches. With the definition and usage of virtual switches, fcmSwitchTable now applies to virtual switches as well as physical switches, and (in contrast to physical switches) it is appropriate to provide the capability for virtual switches to be created via remote management applications, e.g., via SNMP. So, this entry contains a RowStatus object (to allow the creation of a virtual switch), as well as a StorageType object. Obviously, if a row is created/deleted in this table, the corresponding row in the fcmSwitchTable will be created/deleted." IANA Note Upon approval IANA will be requested to allocate a sub-tree identifier for this MIB module under mib-2. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
