CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Steven Waldbusser/CMU Minutes of the Host Resources MIB BOF (HOSTMIB) Review of Charter The Charter was presented and briefly reviewed. The Charter's aggressive schedule for completion was also noted. A concern was voiced that the Charter was too narrow, but there was general agreement that due to the desire to move quickly, a short, focused effort needed to be made. MIB Archive An archive of vendor mibs for host management has been created and 10 vendors have placed mibs there. In addition, a proposal for the Host MIB was created by Pete Grillo and Steve Waldbusser and was placed in the archive. The archived MIBs are available for anonymous FTP from lancaster.andrew.cmu.edu in the directory pub/hostmib. Currently the following MIBs may be found there: apple unix-Krupczak unix-cmu unix-sony hostmib.txt unix-Rose-Davison unix-dec unix-sun pc-att unix-bsd-2 unix-hp Any other MIBs for host management should be sent via email to waldbusser@cmu.edu so that they may be made available in the archive. Several of the attendees mentioned that they had other MIBs to send to the archive. In addition, somebody mentioned that MIT Project Athena has a MIB that should be included. Host Resource MIB Proposal Pete Grillo and Steven Waldbusser made a presentation of the MIB that they created and were submitting to the Working Group us a starting point for the Group's efforts. The MIB was explained table by table and a demonstration was given that the MIB objects defined were in fact platform independent, using Unix, PCs and Macintosh systems as examples. After the presentation, there were many questions asked about the MIB. Several bugs was found and many helpful suggestions were noted. 1 One area that got a lot of attention was the software group which instruments the installed software and the running software on a host. An opinion was raised that this installed software table was hard to implement given the potentially large number of pieces of software installed on a system. A couple of implementation strategies were suggested, and at least one participant expressed plans to implement the table and report back on the feasibility. A concern was also raised that this table might not represent software packages well, but there wasn't a generally accepted principle of what a software package would look like or when it would be a general enough mechanism for a standard MIB. Future Plans There was general agreement that the proposed MIB should be used as a baseline for future work by the Working Group. The comments received should be incorporated into another draft which would be submitted as an Internet Draft. The Working Group agreed with the aggressive schedule and that the Group should next meet in September at a date and time to be announced later. Attendees David Arneson arneson@ctron.com John Ballard jballard@microsoft.com Jonathan Biggar jon@netlabs.com Steve Bostock steveb@novell.com Lida Carrier lida@apple.com Tom Coppeto tom@mit.edu Cathy Cunningham cmc@microcom.com James Davin davin@thumper.bellcore.com Michael Davison davison@cs.utk.edu Raymond Edgerton bellmf!edgerton@uwm.edu David Engel david@ods.com Michael Erlinger mike@lexcel.com Bill Fardy fardy@ctron.com Rob Graham robert_graham@protools.com Pete Grillo pl0143@mail.psi.net James Halpin halpin@turkey.sw.stratus.com Fred Henry fgh@sodium.att.com Ronald Jacoby rj@sgi.com Mark Kepke mak@cnd.hp.com Kenneth Key key@cs.utk.edu Cheryl Krupczak cheryl@cc.gatech.edu Arun Mahajan axm@proteon.com Kim Mayton mayton@wg.com Mike Migliano bellmf!mike@uwm.edu David Minnich dwm@fibercom.com Greg Minshall minshall@wc.novell.com Rohit Mital rm@protools.com Lynn Monsanto monsanto@sun.com 2 Paul Moran Paul_Moran@3com.com Patrick Mullaney mullaney@ctron.com Muki Murthy muki@microcom.com Rina Nathaniel rina!rnd!rndi@uunet.uu.net Tom Nisbet nisbet@tt.com Bill Norton wbn@merit.edu Steven Onishi sonishi@wellfleet.com Bob Page bob.page@eng.sun.com John Payne jop@wang.com David Perkins dperkins@synoptics.com Ed Reeder EREEDER@ralvm12.vnet.ibm.com Bradley Rhoades bdrhoades@mmc.mmmg.com Mike Ritter mwritter@applelink.apple.com Kary Robertson kr@concord.com Dan Romascanu dan@lannet.com Marshall Rose mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us Simon Rosenthal simon@bos.locus.com Jon Saperia saperia@tcpjon.ogo.dec.com Koichiro Seto seto@hitachi-cable.co.jp Timon Sloane peernet!timon@uunet.uu.net Einar Stefferud stef@nma.com Thomas Talpey tmt@osf.org Rodney Thayer rodney@world.std.com Mark Therieau markt@python.eng.microcom.com Chris Thomas chris_thomas@ccm.hf.intel.com Dean Throop throop@dg-rtp.dg.com Panos-Gavriil Tsigaridas tsigaridas@fokus.berlin.gmd.dbp.de Stephen Tsun snt@nsd.3com.com David Waitzman djw@bbn.com Steven Waldbusser waldbusser@andrew.cmu.edu Kathleen Walsh walshy@ctron.com Steven Wong wong@took.enet.dec.com Honda Wu natadm!honda@uunet.uu.net Kiho Yum kxy@nsd.3com.com Joseph Zur zur@fibhaifa.com 3