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["Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>]

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> From eluwish@qwest.com Fri Feb 02 17:42:22 2001
> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 18:41:48 -0700
> From: Edward P Luwish <eluwish@qwest.com>
> To: mibs@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: About this list...
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> I am accustomed to lists with such great volume that I get several
> messages immediately after subscribing, but I am not familiar with this
> one.  If anyone has recommendations for other lists I should subscribe
> to, please respond.
> 
Your "subscribe" request was in the approval queue, and over the weekend
it may take a little bit of time. You are now subscribed and should have
received welcome msg and I have also posted this one.

> My name is Ed Luwish, I work for Qwest Communications, in the Network
> Management Services development team.  Qwest runs a NOC that manages the
> internal enterprise networks of many medium-to-large size companies (my
> group has nothing to do with managing Qwest's backbone infrastructure or
> its ISP divisions).  As such, we need to manage network devices from
> many vendors, and need to do it with a minimum number of tools - we
> rarely use the vendors' EMS products, because of the geometric explosion
> in product administration, maintenance and user training that would
> result.  Also, for efficiency it is best that a NOC engineer need look
> at only one screen for fault management - anything more complex and
> alarms would be lost.
> 
> The disadvantage of this approach is that we depend heavily on
> interoperability between vendor-neutral management software and a huge
> number of different SNMP agents.  My job is to make this a reality by
> crafting tools and plugins, and filing trouble tickets with device and
> NMS vendors.
> 
> Several years ago I worked for Concord Communications adding new
> supported devices to its reporting product, and became intimately
> familiar with standard and enterprise MIBs, both as a source of accurate
> statistical information and for implementation of agent-type and
> managed-element discovery algorithms.  I must have a collection of
> several thousand of them, many from vendors who are no more than a faint
> memory.
> 
> I would like to participate in a forum that has some influence in the
> direction of SNMP, with participation by device and NMS developers and
> other leaders.  My primary concern is with interoperability in a
> multi-vendor environment, but am also interested in high-speed transport
> MIBs, network security, configuration management, agents for translating
> between SNMP and non-SNMP (CORBA, TL1, etc.) messaging and data, and
> other issues that would allow a NOC to give some support to customers
> for every device, every application and every communication layer.
> 
Thanks for the info. And it its really good to hear that real users of our
NM
tools/protocols are joining in. We do not (yet) have a good forum/place to 
discuss the "future" or "where should we go" type of topics. But we do have
various WGs active in this area. See
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/wg-dir.html
for a list of active WGs. Another new WG will be announced soon: EOS
or Evolution of SNMP.

Bert
> Ed
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