Alert Management (alertman)

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Chair(s):
     Louis Steinberg, louiss@ibm.com
Mailing Lists:
     General Discussion:  alert-man@merit.edu
     To Subscribe:  alert-man-request@merit.edu
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.
Done          Write an RFC detailing the above, including examples of
              its conforment use with both SNMP traps and CMOT events.
May 1990      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.
Dec 1990      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''.



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