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Network Working Group S. Waldbusser Request for Comments: 1271 Carnegie Mellon University

                                                         November 1991
       Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base

Status of this Memo

 This memo is an extension to the SNMP MIB.  This RFC specifies an IAB
 standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests
 discussion and suggestions for improvements.  Please refer to the
 current edition of the "IAB Official Protocol Standards" for the
 standardization state and status of this protocol.  Distribution of
 this memo is unlimited.

Table of Contents

 1. Abstract ..............................................    2
 2. The Network Management Framework.......................    2
 3. Objects ...............................................    2
 3.1 Format of Definitions ................................    3
 4. Overview ..............................................    3
 4.1 Remote Network Management Goals ......................    3
 4.2 Textual Conventions ..................................    5
 4.3 Structure of MIB .....................................    5
 4.3.1 The Statistics Group ...............................    6
 4.3.2 The History Group ..................................    6
 4.3.3 The Alarm Group ....................................    6
 4.3.4 The Host Group .....................................    6
 4.3.5 The HostTopN Group .................................    6
 4.3.6 The Matrix Group ...................................    7
 4.3.7 The Filter Group ...................................    7
 4.3.8 The Packet Capture Group ...........................    7
 4.3.9 The Event Group ....................................    7
 5. Control of Remote Network Monitoring Devices ..........    7
 5.1 Resource Sharing Among Multiple Management Stations ..    8
 5.2 Row Addition Among Multiple Management Stations ......    9
 6. Definitions ...........................................   10
 7. Acknowledgments .......................................   80
 8. References ............................................   80
 Security Considerations...................................   81
 Author's Address..........................................   81

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1. Abstract

 This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB)
 for use with network management protocols in TCP/IP-based internets.
 In particular, it defines objects for managing remote network
 monitoring devices.

2. The Network Management Framework

 The Internet-standard Network Management Framework consists of three
 components.  They are:
    RFC 1155 which defines the SMI, the mechanisms used for describing
    and naming objects for the purpose of management.  RFC 1212
    defines a more concise description mechanism, which is wholly
    consistent with the SMI.
    RFC 1156 which defines MIB-I, the core set of managed objects for
    the Internet suite of protocols.  RFC 1213, defines MIB-II, an
    evolution of MIB-I based on implementation experience and new
    operational requirements.
    RFC 1157 which defines the SNMP, the protocol used for network
    access to managed objects.
 The Framework permits new objects to be defined for the purpose of
 experimentation and evaluation.

3. Objects

 Managed objects are accessed via a virtual information store, termed
 the Management Information Base or MIB.  Objects in the MIB are
 defined using the subset of Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) [7]
 defined in the SMI.  In particular, each object has a name, a syntax,
 and an encoding.  The name is an object identifier, an
 administratively assigned name, which specifies an object type.  The
 object type together with an object instance serves to uniquely
 identify a specific instantiation of the object.  For human
 convenience, we often use a textual string, termed the OBJECT
 DESCRIPTOR, to also refer to the object type.
 The syntax of an object type defines the abstract data structure
 corresponding to that object type.  The ASN.1 language is used for
 this purpose.  However, the SMI [3] purposely restricts the ASN.1
 constructs which may be used.  These restrictions are explicitly made
 for simplicity.
 The encoding of an object type is simply how that object type

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 is represented using the object type's syntax.  Implicitly
 tied to the notion of an object type's syntax and encoding is
 how the object type is represented when being transmitted on
 the network.
 The SMI specifies the use of the basic encoding rules of ASN.1 [8],
 subject to the additional requirements imposed by the SNMP.

3.1. Format of Definitions

 Section 6 contains the specification of all object types
 contained in this MIB module.  The object types are defined
 using the conventions defined in the SMI, as amended by the
 extensions specified in [9,10].

4. Overview

 Remote network monitoring devices are instruments that exist for the
 purpose of managing a network.  Often these remote probes are
 stand-alone devices and devote significant internal resources for the
 sole purpose of managing a network.  An organization may employ many
 of these devices, one per network segment, to manage its internet.  In
 addition, these devices may be used for a network management service
 provider to access a client network, often geographically remote.
 While many of the objects in this document are suitable for the
 management of any type of network, there are some which are specific
 to managing Ethernet networks.  The design of this MIB allows similar
 objects to be defined for other network types.  It is intended that
 future versions of this document will define extensions for other
 network types such as Token Ring and FDDI.

4.1. Remote Network Management Goals

            o Offline Operation
                There are sometimes conditions when a management
                station will not be in constant contact with its
                remote monitoring devices.  This is sometimes by
                design in an attempt to lower communications costs
                (especially when communicating over a WAN or
                dialup link), or by accident as network failures
                affect the communications between the management
                station and the probe.
                For this reason, this MIB allows a probe to be
                configured to perform diagnostics and to collect
                statistics continuously, even when communication with
                the management station may not be possible or

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                efficient.  The probe may then attempt to notify
                the management station when an exceptional condition
                occurs.  Thus, even in circumstances where
                communication between management station and probe is
                not continuous, fault, performance, and configuration
                information may be continuously accumulated and
                communicated to the management station conveniently
                and efficiently.
            o Preemptive Monitoring
                Given the resources available on the monitor, it
                is potentially helpful for it continuously to run
                diagnostics and to log network performance.  The
                monitor is always available at the onset of any
                failure.  It can notify the management station of the
                failure and can store historical statistical
                information about the failure.  This historical
                information can be played back by the management
                station in an attempt to perform further diagnosis
                into the cause of the problem.
            o Problem Detection and Reporting
                The monitor can be configured to recognize
                conditions, most notably error conditions, and
                continuously to check for them.  When one of these
                conditions occurs, the event may be logged, and
                management stations may be notified in a number of
                ways.
            o Value Added Data
                Because a remote monitoring device represents a
                network resource dedicated exclusively to network
                management functions, and because it is located
                directly on the monitored portion of the network, the
                remote network monitoring device has the opportunity
                to add significant value to the data it collects.
                For instance, by highlighting those hosts on the
                network that generate the most traffic or errors, the
                probe can give the management station precisely the
                information it needs to solve a class of problems.
            o Multiple Managers
                An organization may have multiple management stations
                for different units of the organization, for different
                functions (e.g. engineering and operations), and in an
                attempt to provide disaster recovery.  Because
                environments with multiple management stations are
                common, the remote network monitoring device has to

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                deal with more than own management station,
                potentially using its resources concurrently.

4.2. Textual Conventions

 Two new data types are introduced as a textual convention in this MIB
 document.  These textual conventions enhance the readability of the
 specification and can ease comparison with other specifications if
 appropriate.  It should be noted that the introduction of the these
 textual conventions has no effect on either the syntax nor the
 semantics of any managed objects.  The use of these is merely an
 artifact of the explanatory method used.  Objects defined in terms of
 one of these methods are always encoded by means of the rules that
 define the primitive type.  Hence, no changes to the SMI or the SNMP
 are necessary to accommodate these textual conventions which are
 adopted merely for the convenience of readers and writers in pursuit
 of the elusive goal of clear, concise, and unambiguous MIB documents.
 The new data types are: OwnerString and EntryStatus.

4.3. Structure of MIB

 The objects are arranged into the following groups:
  1. statistics
  1. history
  1. alarm
  1. host
  1. hostTopN
  1. matrix
  1. filter
  1. packet capture
  1. event
 These groups are the basic unit of conformance.  If a remote
 monitoring device implements a group, then it must implement all
 objects in that group.  For example, a managed agent that implements
 the host group must implement the hostControlTable, the hostTable and
 the hostTimeTable.

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 All groups in this MIB are optional.  Implementations of this MIB
 must also implement the system and interfaces group of MIB-II [6].
 MIB-II may also mandate the implementation of additional groups.
 These groups are defined to provide a means of assigning object
 identifiers, and to provide a method for managed agents to know which
 objects they must implement.

4.3.1. The Statistics Group

 The statistics group contains statistics measured by the probe for
 each monitored interface on this device.  This group currently
 consists of the etherStatsTable but in the future will contain tables
 for other media types including Token Ring and FDDI.

4.3.2. The History Group

 The history group records periodic statistical samples from a network
 and stores them for later retrieval.  This group currently consists
 of the historyControlTable and the etherHistoryTable.  In future
 versions of the MIB, this group may contain tables for other media
 types including Token Ring and FDDI.

4.3.3. The Alarm Group

 The alarm group periodically takes statistical samples from variables
 in the probe and compares them to previously configured thresholds.
 If the monitored variable crosses a threshold, an event is generated.
 A hysteresis mechanism is implemented to limit the generation of
 alarms.  This group consists of the alarmTable and requires the
 implementation of the event group.

4.3.4. The Host Group

 The host group contains statistics associated with each host
 discovered on the network.  This group discovers hosts on the network
 by keeping a list of source and destination MAC Addresses seen in
 good packets promiscuously received from the network.  This group
 consists of the hostControlTable, the hostTable, and the
 hostTimeTable.

4.3.5. The HostTopN Group

 The hostTopN group is used to prepare reports that describe the hosts
 that top a list ordered by one of their statistics.  The available
 statistics are samples of one of their base statistics over an
 interval specified by the management station.  Thus, these statistics
 are rate based.  The management station also selects how many such

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 hosts are reported.  This group consists of the hostTopNControlTable
 and the hostTopNTable, and requires the implementation of the host
 group.

4.3.6. The Matrix Group

 The matrix group stores statistics for conversations between sets of
 two addresses.  As the device detects a new conversation, it creates
 a new entry in its tables.  This group consists of the
 matrixControlTable, the matrixSDTable and the matrixDSTable.

4.3.7. The Filter Group

 The filter group allows packets to be matched by a filter equation.
 These matched packets form a data stream that may be captured or may
 generate events.  This group consists of the filterTable and the
 channelTable.

4.3.8. The Packet Capture Group

 The Packet Capture group allows packets to be captured after they
 flow through a channel.  This group consists of the
 bufferControlTable and the captureBufferTable, and requires the
 implementation of the filter group.

4.3.9. The Event Group

 The event group controls the generation and notification of events
 from this device.  This group consists of the eventTable and the
 logTable.

5. Control of Remote Network Monitoring Devices

 Due to the complex nature of the available functions in these
 devices, the functions often need user configuration.  In many cases,
 the function requires parameters to be set up for a data collection
 operation.  The operation can proceed only after these parameters are
 fully set up.
 Many functional groups in this MIB have one or more tables in which
 to set up control parameters, and one or more data tables in which to
 place the results of the operation.  The control tables are typically
 read-write in nature, while the data tables are typically read-only.
 Because the parameters in the control table often describe resulting
 data in the data table, many of the parameters can be modified only
 when the control entry is invalid.  Thus, the method for modifying
 these parameters is to invalidate the control entry, causing its
 deletion and the deletion of any associated data entries, and then

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 create a new control entry with the proper parameters.  Deleting the
 control entry also gives a convenient method for reclaiming the
 resources used by the associated data.
 Some objects in this MIB provide a mechanism to execute an action on
 the remote monitoring device.  These objects may execute an action as
 a result of a change in the state of the object.  For those objects
 in this MIB, a request to set an object to the same value as it
 currently holds would thus cause no action to occur.
 To facilitate control by multiple managers, resources have to be
 shared among the managers.  These resources are typically the memory
 and computation resources that a function requires.

5.1. Resource Sharing Among Multiple Management Stations

 When multiple management stations wish to use functions that compete
 for a finite amount of resources on a device, a method to facilitate
 this sharing of resources is required.  Potential conflicts include:
            o Two management stations wish to simultaneously use
              resources that together would exceed the capability of
              the device.
            o A management station uses a significant amount of
              resources for a long period of time.
            o A management station uses resources and then crashes,
              forgetting to free the resources so others may
              use them.
 A mechanism is provided for each management station initiated
 function in this MIB to avoid these conflicts and to help resolve
 them when they occur.  Each function has a label identifying the
 initiator (owner) of the function.  This label is set by the
 initiator to provide for the following possibilities:
            o A management station may recognize resources it owns
              and no longer needs.
            o A network operator can find the management station that
              owns the resource and negotiate for it to be freed.
            o A network operator may decide to unilaterally free
              resources another network operator has reserved.
            o Upon initialization, a management station may recognize
              resources it had reserved in the past.  With this

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              information it may free the resources if it no longer
              needs them.
 Management stations and probes should support any format of the owner
 string dictated by the local policy of the organization.  It is
 suggested that this name contain one or more of the following: IP
 address, management station name, network manager's name, location,
 or phone number.  This information will help users to share the
 resources more effectively.
 There is often default functionality that the device wishes to set
 up.  The resources associated with this functionality are then owned
 by the device itself.  In this case, the device will set the relevant
 owner object to a string starting with 'monitor'.  Indiscriminate
 modification of the monitor-owned configuration by network management
 stations is discouraged.  In fact, a network management station
 should only modify these objects under the direction of the
 administrator of the probe, often the network administrator.
 When a network management station wishes to utilize a function in a
 monitor, it is encouraged to first scan the control table of that
 function to find an instance with similar parameters to share.  This
 is especially true for those instances owned by the monitor, which
 can be assumed to change infrequently.  If a management station
 decides to share an instance owned by another management station, it
 should understand that the management station that owns the instance
 may indiscriminately modify or delete it.

5.2. Row Addition Among Multiple Management Stations

 The addition of new rows is achieved using the method described in
 [9].  In this MIB, rows are often added to a table in order to
 configure a function.  This configuration usually involves parameters
 that control the operation of the function.  The agent must check
 these parameters to make sure they are appropriate given restrictions
 defined in this MIB as well as any implementation specific
 restrictions such as lack of resources.  The agent implementor may be
 confused as to when to check these parameters and when to signal to
 the management station that the parameters are invalid.  There are
 two opportunities:
            o When the management station sets each parameter object.
            o When the management station sets the entry status object
              to valid.
 If the latter is chosen, it would be unclear to the management
 station which of the several parameters was invalid and caused the

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 badValue error to be emitted.  Thus, wherever possible, the
 implementor should choose the former as it will provide more
 information to the management station.
 A problem can arise when multiple management stations attempt to set
 configuration information simultaneously using SNMP.  When this
 involves the addition of a new conceptual row in the same control
 table, the managers may collide, attempting to create the same entry.
 To guard against these collisions, each such control entry contains a
 status object with special semantics that help to arbitrate among the
 managers.  If an attempt is made with the row addition mechanism to
 create such a status object and that object already exists, an error
 is returned.  When more than one manager simultaneously attempts to
 create the same conceptual row, only the first will succeed.  The
 others will receive an error.

6. Definitions

        RFC1271-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN
            IMPORTS
                Counter                              FROM RFC1155-SMI
                DisplayString                        FROM RFC1158-MIB
                mib-2                                FROM RFC1213-MIB
                OBJECT-TYPE                          FROM RFC-1212;
  1. - This MIB module uses the extended OBJECT-TYPE macro as
  2. - defined in [9].
  1. - Remote Network Monitoring MIB
            rmon    OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { mib-2 16 }
  1. - textual conventions
            OwnerString ::= DisplayString
            -- This data type is used to model an administratively
            -- assigned name of the owner of a resource. This
            -- information is taken from the NVT ASCII character set.
            -- It is suggested that this name contain one or more
            -- of the following:
            -- IP address, management station name, network manager's
            -- name, location, or phone number.
            -- In some cases the agent itself will be the owner of
            -- an entry.  In these cases, this string shall be set
            -- to a string starting with 'monitor'.

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  1. -
  2. - SNMP access control is articulated entirely in terms of
  3. - the contents of MIB views; access to a particular SNMP
  4. - object instance depends only upon its presence or
  5. - absence in a particular MIB view and never upon its
  6. - value or the value of related object instances. Thus,
  7. - objects of this type afford resolution of resource
  8. - contention only among cooperating managers; they
  9. - realize no access control function with respect
  10. - to uncooperative parties.
  11. -
  12. - By convention, objects with this syntax are declared
  13. - as having
  14. -
  15. - SIZE (0..127)
            EntryStatus ::= INTEGER
                       { valid(1),
                         createRequest(2),
                         underCreation(3),
                         invalid(4)
                       }
  1. - The status of a table entry.
  2. -
  3. - Setting this object to the value invalid(4) has the
  4. - effect of invalidating the corresponding entry.
  5. - That is, it effectively disassociates the mapping
  6. - identified with said entry.
  7. - It is an implementation-specific matter as to whether
  8. - the agent removes an invalidated entry from the table.
  9. - Accordingly, management stations must be prepared to
  10. - receive tabular information from agents that corresponds
  11. - to entries currently not in use. Proper
  12. - interpretation of such entries requires examination
  13. - of the relevant EntryStatus object.
  14. -
  15. - An existing instance of this object cannot be set to
  16. - createRequest(2). This object may only be set to
  17. - createRequest(2) when this instance is created. When
  18. - this object is created, the agent may wish to create
  19. - supplemental object instances to complete a conceptual
  20. - row in this table. Immediately after completing the
  21. - create operation, the agent must set this object to
  22. - underCreation(3).
  23. -
  24. - Entries shall exist in the underCreation(3) state until

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  1. - the management station is finished configuring the
  2. - entry and sets this object to valid(1) or aborts,
  3. - setting this object to invalid(4). If the agent
  4. - determines that an entry has been in the
  5. - underCreation(3) state for an abnormally long time,
  6. - it may decide that the management station has
  7. - crashed. If the agent makes this decision,
  8. - it may set this object to invalid(4) to reclaim the
  9. - entry. A prudent agent will understand that the
  10. - management station may need to wait for human input
  11. - and will allow for that possibility in its
  12. - determination of this abnormally long period.
            statistics        OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { rmon 1 }
            history           OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { rmon 2 }
            alarm             OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { rmon 3 }
            hosts             OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { rmon 4 }
            hostTopN          OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { rmon 5 }
            matrix            OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { rmon 6 }
            filter            OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { rmon 7 }
            capture           OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { rmon 8 }
            event             OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { rmon 9 }
  1. - The Statistics Group
  2. -
  3. - Implementation of the Statistics group is optional.
  4. -
  5. - The statistics group contains statistics measured by the
  6. - probe for each monitored interface on this device. These
  7. - statistics take the form of free running counters that
  8. - start from zero when a valid entry is created.
  9. -
  10. - This group currently has statistics defined only for
  11. - Ethernet interfaces. Each etherStatsEntry contains
  12. - statistics for one Ethernet interface. The probe must
  13. - create one etherStats entry for each monitored Ethernet
  14. - interface on the device.
        etherStatsTable OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF EtherStatsEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A list of Ethernet statistics entries."
            ::= { statistics 1 }

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        etherStatsEntry OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX EtherStatsEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A collection of statistics kept for a particular
                Ethernet interface."
            INDEX { etherStatsIndex }
            ::= { etherStatsTable 1 }
        EtherStatsEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
            etherStatsIndex                    INTEGER (1..65535),
            etherStatsDataSource               OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
            etherStatsDropEvents               Counter,
            etherStatsOctets                   Counter,
            etherStatsPkts                     Counter,
            etherStatsBroadcastPkts            Counter,
            etherStatsMulticastPkts            Counter,
            etherStatsCRCAlignErrors           Counter,
            etherStatsUndersizePkts            Counter,
            etherStatsOversizePkts             Counter,
            etherStatsFragments                Counter,
            etherStatsJabbers                  Counter,
            etherStatsCollisions               Counter,
            etherStatsPkts64Octets             Counter,
            etherStatsPkts65to127Octets        Counter,
            etherStatsPkts128to255Octets       Counter,
            etherStatsPkts256to511Octets       Counter,
            etherStatsPkts512to1023Octets      Counter,
            etherStatsPkts1024to1518Octets     Counter,
            etherStatsOwner                    OwnerString,
            etherStatsStatus                   INTEGER
        }
        etherStatsIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..65535)
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The value of this object uniquely identifies this
                etherStats entry."
            ::= { etherStatsEntry 1 }
        etherStatsDataSource OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX OBJECT IDENTIFIER
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION

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                "This object identifies the source of the data that
                this etherStats entry is configured to analyze.  This
                source can be any ethernet interface on this device.
                In order to identify a particular interface, this
                object shall identify the instance of the ifIndex
                object, defined in [4,6], for the desired interface.
                For example, if an entry were to receive data from
                interface #1, this object would be set to ifIndex.1.
                The statistics in this group reflect all packets
                on the local network segment attached to the
                identified interface.
                This object may not be modified if the associated
                etherStatsStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            ::= { etherStatsEntry 2 }
        etherStatsDropEvents OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The total number of events in which packets
                were dropped by the probe due to lack of resources.
                Note that this number is not necessarily the number of
                packets dropped; it is just the number of times this
                condition has been detected."
            ::= { etherStatsEntry 3 }
        etherStatsOctets OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The total number of octets of data (including
                those in bad packets) received on the
                network (excluding framing bits but including
                FCS octets)."
            ::= { etherStatsEntry 4 }
        etherStatsPkts OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The total number of packets (including error packets)
                received."
            ::= { etherStatsEntry 5 }

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        etherStatsBroadcastPkts OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The total number of good packets received that were
                directed to the broadcast address."
            ::= { etherStatsEntry 6 }
        etherStatsMulticastPkts OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The total number of good packets received that were
                directed to a multicast address.  Note that this
                number does not include packets directed to the
                broadcast address."
            ::= { etherStatsEntry 7 }
        etherStatsCRCAlignErrors OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The total number of packets received that
                had a length (excluding framing bits, but
                including FCS octets) of between 64 and 1518
                octets, inclusive, but were not an integral number
                of octets in length or had a bad Frame Check
                Sequence (FCS)."
            ::= { etherStatsEntry 8 }
        etherStatsUndersizePkts OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The total number of packets received that were
                less than 64 octets long (excluding framing bits,
                but including FCS octets) and were otherwise well
                formed."
            ::= { etherStatsEntry 9 }
        etherStatsOversizePkts OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory

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            DESCRIPTION
                "The total number of packets received that were
                longer than 1518 octets (excluding framing bits,
                but including FCS octets) and were otherwise
                well formed."
            ::= { etherStatsEntry 10 }
        etherStatsFragments OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The total number of packets received that were not an
                integral number of octets in length or that had a bad
                Frame Check Sequence (FCS), and were less than 64
                octets in length (excluding framing bits but
                including FCS octets)."
            ::= { etherStatsEntry 11 }
        etherStatsJabbers OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The total number of packets received that were
                longer than 1518 octets (excluding framing bits,
                but including FCS octets), and were not an
                integral number of octets in length or had
                a bad Frame Check Sequence (FCS)."
            ::= { etherStatsEntry 12 }
        etherStatsCollisions OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The best estimate of the total number of collisions
                on this Ethernet segment."
            ::= { etherStatsEntry 13 }
        etherStatsPkts64Octets OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The total number of packets (including error
                packets) received that were 64 octets in length
                (excluding framing bits but including FCS octets)."

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            ::= { etherStatsEntry 14 }
        etherStatsPkts65to127Octets OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The total number of packets (including error
                packets) received that were between
                65 and 127 octets in length inclusive
                (excluding framing bits but including FCS octets)."
            ::= { etherStatsEntry 15 }
        etherStatsPkts128to255Octets OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The total number of packets (including error
                packets) received that were between
                128 and 255 octets in length inclusive
                (excluding framing bits but including FCS octets)."
            ::= { etherStatsEntry 16 }
        etherStatsPkts256to511Octets OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The total number of packets (including error
                packets) received that were between
                256 and 511 octets in length inclusive
                (excluding framing bits but including FCS octets)."
            ::= { etherStatsEntry 17 }
        etherStatsPkts512to1023Octets OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The total number of packets (including error
                packets) received that were between
                512 and 1023 octets in length inclusive
                (excluding framing bits but including FCS octets)."
            ::= { etherStatsEntry 18 }

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        etherStatsPkts1024to1518Octets OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The total number of packets (including error
                packets) received that were between
                1024 and 1518 octets in length inclusive
                (excluding framing bits but including FCS octets)."
            ::= { etherStatsEntry 19 }
        etherStatsOwner OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX OwnerString
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The entity that configured this entry and is
                therefore using the resources assigned to it."
            ::= { etherStatsEntry 20 }
        etherStatsStatus OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX EntryStatus
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The status of this etherStats entry."
            ::= { etherStatsEntry 21 }
  1. - The History Group
  1. - Implementation of the History group is optional.
  2. -
  3. - The history group records periodic statistical samples from
  4. - a network and stores them for later retrieval. The
  5. - historyControl table stores configuration entries that each
  6. - define an interface, polling period, and other parameters.
  7. - Once samples are taken, their data is stored in an entry
  8. - in a media-specific table. Each such entry defines one
  9. - sample, and is associated with the historyControlEntry that
  10. - caused the sample to be taken. Currently the only media-
  11. - specific table defined is the etherHistoryTable, for
  12. - Ethernet networks.
  13. -
  14. - If the probe keeps track of the time of day, it should
  15. - start the first sample of the history at a time such that
  16. - when the next hour of the day begins, a sample is
  17. - started at that instant. This tends to make more

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  1. - user-friendly reports, and enables comparison of reports
  2. - from different probes that have relatively accurate time
  3. - of day.
  4. -
  5. - The monitor is encouraged to add two history control entries
  6. - per monitored interface upon initialization that describe
  7. - a short term and a long term polling period. Suggested
  8. - parameters are 30 seconds for the short term polling
  9. - period and 30 minutes for the long term period.
        historyControlTable OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF HistoryControlEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A list of history control entries."
            ::= { history 1 }
        historyControlEntry OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX HistoryControlEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A list of parameters that set up a periodic
                sampling of statistics."
            INDEX { historyControlIndex }
            ::= { historyControlTable 1 }
        HistoryControlEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
            historyControlIndex             INTEGER (1..65535),
            historyControlDataSource        OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
            historyControlBucketsRequested  INTEGER (1..65535),
            historyControlBucketsGranted    INTEGER (1..65535),
            historyControlInterval          INTEGER (1..3600),
            historyControlOwner             OwnerString,
            historyControlStatus            INTEGER
        }
        historyControlIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..65535)
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "An index that uniquely identifies an entry in the
                historyControl table.  Each such entry defines a
                set of samples at a particular interval for an
                interface on the device."
            ::= { historyControlEntry 1 }

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        historyControlDataSource OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX OBJECT IDENTIFIER
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "This object identifies the source of the data for
                which historical data was collected and
                placed in a media-specific table on behalf of this
                historyControlEntry.  This source can be any
                interface on this device.  In order to identify
                a particular interface, this object shall identify
                the instance of the ifIndex object, defined
                in [4,6], for the desired interface.  For example,
                if an entry were to receive data from interface #1,
                this object would be set to ifIndex.1.
                The statistics in this group reflect all packets
                on the local network segment attached to the
                identified interface.
                This object may not be modified if the associated
                historyControlStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            ::= { historyControlEntry 2 }
        historyControlBucketsRequested OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..65535)
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The requested number of discrete time intervals
                over which data is to be saved in the part of the
                media-specific table associated with this
                historyControl entry.
                When this object is created or modified, the probe
                should set historyControlBucketsGranted as closely to
                this object as is possible for the particular probe
                implementation and available resources."
            DEFVAL { 50 }
            ::= { historyControlEntry 3 }
        historyControlBucketsGranted OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..65535)
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of discrete sampling intervals
                over which data shall be saved in the part of

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                the media-specific table associated with this
                historyControl entry.
                When the associated historyControlBucketsRequested
                object is created or modified, the probe
                should set this object as closely to the requested
                value as is possible for the particular
                probe implementation and available resources.  The
                probe must not lower this value except as a result
                of a modification to the associated
                historyControlBucketsRequested object.
                There will be times when the actual number of
                buckets associated with this entry is less than
                the value of this object.  In this case, at the
                end of each sampling interval, a new bucket will
                be added to the media-specific table.
                When the number of buckets reaches the value of
                this object and a new bucket is to be added to the
                media-specific table, the oldest bucket associated
                with this historyControlEntry shall be deleted by
                the agent so that the new bucket can be added.
                When the value of this object changes to a value less
                than the current value, entries are deleted
                from the media-specific table associated with this
                historyControlEntry.  Enough of the oldest of these
                entries shall be deleted by the agent so that their
                number remains less than or equal to the new value of
                this object.
                When the value of this object changes to a value
                greater than the current value, the number of
                associated media-specific entries may be allowed
                to grow."
            ::= { historyControlEntry 4 }
        historyControlInterval OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..3600)
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The interval in seconds over which the data is
                sampled for each bucket in the part of the
                media-specific table associated with this
                historyControl entry.  This interval can
                be set to any number of seconds between 1 and

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                3600 (1 hour).
                Because the counters in a bucket may overflow at their
                maximum value with no indication, a prudent manager
                will take into account the possibility of overflow
                in any of the associated counters.  It is important
                to consider the minimum time in which any counter
                could overflow on a particular media type and set
                the historyControlInterval object to a value less
                than this interval.  This is typically most
                important for the 'octets' counter in any
                media-specific table.  For example, on an Ethernet
                network, the etherHistoryOctets counter could overflow
                in about one hour at the Ethernet's maximum
                utilization.
                This object may not be modified if the associated
                historyControlStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            DEFVAL { 1800 }
            ::= { historyControlEntry 5 }
        historyControlOwner OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX OwnerString
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The entity that configured this entry and is therefore
                using the resources assigned to it."
            ::= { historyControlEntry 6 }
        historyControlStatus OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX EntryStatus
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The status of this historyControl entry.
                Each instance of the media-specific table associated
                with this historyControlEntry will be deleted by the
                agent if this historyControlEntry is not equal to
                valid(1)."
            ::= { historyControlEntry 7 }
  1. - Ether History table
        etherHistoryTable OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF EtherHistoryEntry

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            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A list of Ethernet history entries."
            ::= { history 2 }
        etherHistoryEntry OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX EtherHistoryEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "An historical sample of Ethernet statistics on a
                particular Ethernet interface.  This sample is
                associated with the historyControlEntry which set
                up the parameters for a regular collection of these
                samples."
            INDEX { etherHistoryIndex , etherHistorySampleIndex }
            ::= { etherHistoryTable 1 }
        EtherHistoryEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
            etherHistoryIndex                 INTEGER (1..65535),
            etherHistorySampleIndex           INTEGER,
            etherHistoryIntervalStart         TimeTicks,
            etherHistoryDropEvents            Counter,
            etherHistoryOctets                Counter,
            etherHistoryPkts                  Counter,
            etherHistoryBroadcastPkts         Counter,
            etherHistoryMulticastPkts         Counter,
            etherHistoryCRCAlignErrors        Counter,
            etherHistoryUndersizePkts         Counter,
            etherHistoryOversizePkts          Counter,
            etherHistoryFragments             Counter,
            etherHistoryJabbers               Counter,
            etherHistoryCollisions            Counter,
            etherHistoryUtilization           INTEGER (0..10000)
        }
        etherHistoryIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..65535)
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The history of which this entry is a part.  The
                history identified by a particular value of this
                index is the same history as identified
                by the same value of historyControlIndex."
            ::= { etherHistoryEntry 1 }

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        etherHistorySampleIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "An index that uniquely identifies the particular
                sample this entry represents among all samples
                associated with the same historyControlEntry.
                This index starts at 1 and increases by one
                as each new sample is taken."
            ::= { etherHistoryEntry 2 }
        etherHistoryIntervalStart OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX TimeTicks
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The value of sysUpTime at the start of the interval
                over which this sample was measured.  If the probe
                keeps track of the time of day, it should start
                the first sample of the history at a time such that
                when the next hour of the day begins, a sample is
                started at that instant.  Note that following this
                rule may require the probe to delay collecting the
                first sample of the history, as each sample must be
                of the same interval.  Also note that the sample which
                is currently being collected is not accessible in this
                table until the end of its interval."
            ::= { etherHistoryEntry 3 }
        etherHistoryDropEvents OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The total number of events in which packets
                were dropped by the probe due to lack of resources
                during this interval.  Note that this number is not
                necessarily the number of packets dropped, it is just
                the number of times this condition has been detected."
            ::= { etherHistoryEntry 4 }
        etherHistoryOctets OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The total number of octets of data (including

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                those in bad packets) received on the
                network (excluding framing bits but including
                FCS octets)."
            ::= { etherHistoryEntry 5 }
        etherHistoryPkts OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of packets (including error packets)
                received during this sampling interval."
            ::= { etherHistoryEntry 6 }
        etherHistoryBroadcastPkts OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of good packets received during this
                sampling interval that were directed to the
                broadcast address."
            ::= { etherHistoryEntry 7 }
        etherHistoryMulticastPkts OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of good packets received during this
                sampling interval that were directed to a
                multicast address.  Note that this number does not
                include packets addressed to the broadcast address."
            ::= { etherHistoryEntry 8 }
        etherHistoryCRCAlignErrors OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of packets received during this
                sampling interval that had a length (excluding
                framing bits but including FCS octets) between
                64 and 1518 octets, inclusive, but were not an
                integral number of octets in length or had a
                bad Frame Check Sequence (FCS)."
            ::= { etherHistoryEntry 9 }

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        etherHistoryUndersizePkts OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of packets received during this
                interval that were less than 64 octets long
                (excluding framing bits but including FCS
                octets) and were otherwise well formed."
            ::= { etherHistoryEntry 10 }
        etherHistoryOversizePkts OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of packets received during this
                interval that were longer than 1518 octets
                (excluding framing bits but including FCS
                octets) but were otherwise well formed."
            ::= { etherHistoryEntry 11 }
        etherHistoryFragments OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The total number of packets received during this
                sampling interval that were not an integral
                number of octets in length or that
                had a bad Frame Check Sequence (FCS), and
                were less than 64 octets in length (excluding
                framing bits but including FCS octets)."
            ::= { etherHistoryEntry 12 }
        etherHistoryJabbers OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of packets received during this
                interval that were longer than 1518 octets
                (excluding framing bits but including FCS octets),
                and were not an integral number of octets in
                length or had a bad Frame Check Sequence (FCS)."
            ::= { etherHistoryEntry 13 }

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        etherHistoryCollisions OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The best estimate of the total number of collisions
                on this Ethernet segment during this interval."
            ::= { etherHistoryEntry 14 }
        etherHistoryUtilization OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (0..10000)
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The best estimate of the mean physical layer
                network utilization on this interface during this
                interval, in hundredths of a percent."
            ::= { etherHistoryEntry 15 }
  1. - The Alarm Group
  1. - Implementation of the Alarm group is optional.
  2. -
  3. - The Alarm Group requires the implementation of the Event
  4. - group.
  5. -
  6. - The Alarm group periodically takes statistical samples from
  7. - variables in the probe and compares them to thresholds
  8. - that have been configured. The alarm table stores
  9. - configuration entries that each define a variable,
  10. - polling period, and threshold parameters. If a sample is
  11. - found to cross the threshold values, an event is
  12. - generated. Only variables that resolve to an ASN.1
  13. - primitive type of INTEGER (INTEGER, Counter,
  14. - Gauge, or TimeTicks) may be monitored in this way.
  15. -
  16. - This function has a hysteresis mechanism to limit the
  17. - generation of events. This mechanism generates one event
  18. - as a threshold is crossed in the appropriate direction.
  19. - No more events are generated for that threshold until the
  20. - opposite threshold is crossed.
  21. -
  22. - In the case of a sampling a deltaValue, a probe may
  23. - implement this mechanism with more precision if it takes
  24. - a delta sample twice per period, each time comparing the
  25. - sum of the latest two samples to the threshold. This
  26. - allows the detection of threshold crossings

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  1. - that span the sampling boundary. Note that this does not
  2. - require any special configuration of the threshold value.
  3. - It is suggested that probes implement this more precise
  4. - algorithm.
        alarmTable OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF AlarmEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A list of alarm entries."
            ::= { alarm 1 }
        alarmEntry OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX AlarmEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A list of parameters that set up a periodic checking
                for alarm conditions."
            INDEX { alarmIndex }
            ::= { alarmTable 1 }
        AlarmEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
            alarmIndex                    INTEGER (1..65535),
            alarmInterval                 INTEGER,
            alarmVariable                 OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
            alarmSampleType               INTEGER,
            alarmValue                    INTEGER,
            alarmStartupAlarm             INTEGER,
            alarmRisingThreshold          INTEGER,
            alarmFallingThreshold         INTEGER,
            alarmRisingEventIndex         INTEGER (1..65535),
            alarmFallingEventIndex        INTEGER (1..65535),
            alarmOwner                    OwnerString,
            alarmStatus                   INTEGER
        }
        alarmIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..65535)
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "An index that uniquely identifies an entry in the
                alarm table.  Each such entry defines a
                diagnostic sample at a particular interval
                for an object on the device."
            ::= { alarmEntry 1 }

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        alarmInterval OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The interval in seconds over which the data is
                sampled and compared with the rising and falling
                thresholds.  When setting this variable, care
                should be given to ensure that the variable being
                monitored will not exceed 2^31 - 1 and roll
                over the alarmValue object during the interval.
                This object may not be modified if the associated
                alarmStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            ::= { alarmEntry 2 }
        alarmVariable OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX OBJECT IDENTIFIER
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The object identifier of the particular variable to
                be sampled.  Only variables that resolve to an ASN.1
                primitive type of INTEGER (INTEGER, Counter, Gauge,
                or TimeTicks) may be sampled.
                Because SNMP access control is articulated entirely
                in terms of the contents of MIB views, no access
                control mechanism exists that can restrict the value of
                this object to identify only those objects that exist
                in a particular MIB view.  Because there is thus no
                acceptable means of restricting the read access that
                could be obtained through the alarm mechanism, the
                probe must only grant write access to this object in
                those views that have read access to all objects on
                the probe.
                During a set operation, if the supplied variable
                name is not available in the selected MIB view, a
                badValue error must be returned.  If at any time
                the variable name of an established alarmEntry is
                no longer available in the selected MIB view, the
                probe must change the status of this alarmEntry
                to invalid(4).
                This object may not be modified if the associated
                alarmStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            ::= { alarmEntry 3 }

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        alarmSampleType OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER {
                absoluteValue(1),
                deltaValue(2)
            }
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The method of sampling the selected variable and
                calculating the value to be compared against the
                thresholds.  If the value of this object is
                absoluteValue(1), the value of the selected variable
                will be compared directly with the thresholds at the
                end of the sampling interval.  If the value of this
                object is deltaValue(2), the value of the selected
                variable at the last sample will be subtracted from
                the current value, and the difference compared with
                the thresholds.
                This object may not be modified if the associated
                alarmStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            ::= { alarmEntry 4 }
        alarmValue OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The value of the statistic during the last sampling
                period.  The value during the current sampling period
                is not made available until the period is completed."
            ::= { alarmEntry 5 }
        alarmStartupAlarm OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER {
                risingAlarm(1),
                fallingAlarm(2),
                risingOrFallingAlarm(3)
            }
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The alarm that may be sent when this entry is first
                set to valid.  If the first sample after this entry
                becomes valid is greater than or equal to the
                risingThreshold and alarmStartupAlarm is equal to
                risingAlarm(1) or risingOrFallingAlarm(3), then a
                single rising alarm will be generated.  If the first

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                sample after this entry becomes valid is less than
                or equal to the fallingThreshold and
                alarmStartupAlarm is equal to fallingAlarm(2) or
                risingOrFallingAlarm(3), then a single falling
                alarm will be generated.
                This object may not be modified if the associated
                alarmStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            ::= { alarmEntry 6 }
        alarmRisingThreshold OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A threshold for the sampled statistic.  When the
                current sampled value is greater than or equal to
                this threshold, and the value at the last sampling
                interval was less than this threshold, a single
                event will be generated.
                A single event will also be generated if the first
                sample after this entry becomes valid is greater
                than or equal to this threshold and the associated
                alarmStartupAlarm is equal to risingAlarm(1) or
                risingOrFallingAlarm(3).
                After a rising event is generated, another such event
                will not be generated until the sampled value
                falls below this threshold and reaches the
                alarmFallingThreshold.
                This object may not be modified if the associated
                alarmStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            ::= { alarmEntry 7 }
        alarmFallingThreshold OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A threshold for the sampled statistic.  When the
                current sampled value is less than or equal to
                this threshold, and the value at the last sampling
                interval was greater than this threshold, a single
                event will be generated.
                A single event will also be generated if the first
                sample after this entry becomes valid is less than or
                equal to this threshold and the associated

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                alarmStartupAlarm is equal to fallingAlarm(2) or
                risingOrFallingAlarm(3).
                After a falling event is generated, another such event
                will not be generated until the sampled value
                rises above this threshold and reaches the
                alarmRisingThreshold.
                This object may not be modified if the associated
                alarmStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            ::= { alarmEntry 8 }
        alarmRisingEventIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (0..65535)
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The index of the eventEntry that is
                used when a rising threshold is crossed.  The
                eventEntry identified by a particular value of
                this index is the same as identified by the same value
                of the eventIndex object.  If there is no
                corresponding entry in the eventTable, then
                no association exists.  In particular, if this value
                is zero, no associated event will be generated, as
                zero is not a valid event index.
                This object may not be modified if the associated
                alarmStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            ::= { alarmEntry 9 }
        alarmFallingEventIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (0..65535)
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The index of the eventEntry that is
                used when a falling threshold is crossed.  The
                eventEntry identified by a particular value of
                this index is the same as identified by the same value
                of the eventIndex object.  If there is no
                corresponding entry in the eventTable, then
                no association exists.  In particular, if this value
                is zero, no associated event will be generated, as
                zero is not a valid event index.
                This object may not be modified if the associated
                alarmStatus object is equal to valid(1)."

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            ::= { alarmEntry 10 }
        alarmOwner OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX OwnerString
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The entity that configured this entry and is
                therefore using the resources assigned to it."
            ::= { alarmEntry 11 }
        alarmStatus OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX EntryStatus
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The status of this alarm entry."
            ::= { alarmEntry 12 }
  1. - The Host Group
  1. - Implementation of the Host group is optional.
  2. -
  3. - The host group discovers new hosts on the network by
  4. - keeping a list of source and destination MAC Addresses seen
  5. - in good packets. For each of these addresses, the host
  6. - group keeps a set of statistics. The hostControlTable
  7. - controls which interfaces this function is performed on,
  8. - and contains some information about the process. On
  9. - behalf of each hostControlEntry, data is collected on an
  10. - interface and placed both the hostTable and the
  11. - hostTimeTable. If the monitoring device finds itself
  12. - short of resources, it may delete entries as needed. It
  13. - is suggested that the device delete the least recently
  14. - used entries first.
  1. - The hostTable contains entries for each address
  2. - discovered on a particular interface. Each entry
  3. - contains statistical data about that host. This table
  4. - is indexed by the MAC address of the host, through
  5. - which a random access may be achieved.
  1. - The hostTimeTable contains data in the same format as the
  2. - hostTable, and must contain the same set of hosts, but is
  3. - indexed using hostTimeCreationOrder rather than hostAddress.
  4. - The hostTimeCreationOrder is an integer which reflects
  5. - the relative order in which a particular entry was

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  1. - discovered and thus inserted into the table. As this
  2. - order, and thus index, is among those entries currently
  3. - in the table, the index for a particular entry may change
  4. - if an (earlier) entry is deleted. Thus the association
  5. - between hostTimeCreationOrder and hostTimeEntry may be
  6. - broken at any time.
  1. - The hostTimeTable has two important uses. The first is the
  2. - fast download of this potentially large table. Because the
  3. - index of this table runs from 1 to the size of the table,
  4. - inclusive, its values are predictable. This allows very
  5. - efficient packing of variables into SNMP PDU's and allows
  6. - a table transfer to have multiple packets outstanding.
  7. - These benefits increase transfer rates tremendously.
  1. - The second use of the hostTimeTable is the efficient
  2. - discovery by the management station of new entries added
  3. - to the table. After the management station has
  4. - downloaded the entire table, it knows that new entries
  5. - will be added immediately after the end of the current
  6. - table. It can thus detect new entries there
  7. - and retrieve them easily.
  1. - Because the association between hostTimeCreationOrder and
  2. - hostTimeEntry may be broken at any time, the management
  3. - station must monitor the related hostControlLastDeleteTime
  4. - object. When the management station thus detects a deletion,
  5. - it must assume that any such associations have been broken,
  6. - and invalidate any it has stored locally. This includes
  7. - restarting any download of the hostTimeTable that may have
  8. - been in progress, as well as rediscovering the end of the
  9. - hostTimeTable so that it may detect new entries. If the
  10. - management station does not detect the broken association,
  11. - it may continue to refer to a particular host by its
  12. - creationOrder while unwittingly retrieving the data
  13. - associated with another host entirely. If this happens
  14. - while downloading the host table, the management station
  15. - may fail to download all of the entries in the table.
        hostControlTable OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF HostControlEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A list of host table control entries."
            ::= { hosts 1 }

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        hostControlEntry OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX HostControlEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A list of parameters that set up the discovery of
                hosts on a particular interface and the collection
                of statistics about these hosts."
            INDEX { hostControlIndex }
            ::= { hostControlTable 1 }
        HostControlEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
            hostControlIndex            INTEGER (1..65535),
            hostControlDataSource       OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
            hostControlTableSize        INTEGER,
            hostControlLastDeleteTime   TimeTicks,
            hostControlOwner            OwnerString,
            hostControlStatus           INTEGER
        }
        hostControlIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..65535)
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "An index that uniquely identifies an entry in the
                hostControl table.  Each such entry defines
                a function that discovers hosts on a particular
                interface and places statistics about them in the
                hostTable and the hostTimeTable on behalf of this
                hostControlEntry."
            ::= { hostControlEntry 1 }
        hostControlDataSource OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX OBJECT IDENTIFIER
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "This object identifies the source of the data for
                this instance of the host function.  This source
                can be any interface on this device.  In order
                to identify a particular interface, this object shall
                identify the instance of the ifIndex object, defined
                in [4,6], for the desired interface.  For example,
                if an entry were to receive data from interface #1,
                this object would be set to ifIndex.1.
                The statistics in this group reflect all packets

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                on the local network segment attached to the
                identified interface.
                This object may not be modified if the associated
                hostControlStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            ::= { hostControlEntry 2 }
        hostControlTableSize OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of hostEntries in the hostTable and the
                hostTimeTable associated with this hostControlEntry."
            ::= { hostControlEntry 3 }
        hostControlLastDeleteTime OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX TimeTicks
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The value of sysUpTime when the last entry
                was deleted from the portion of the hostTable
                associated with this hostControlEntry.  If no
                deletions have occurred, this value shall be zero."
            ::= { hostControlEntry 4 }
        hostControlOwner OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX OwnerString
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The entity that configured this entry and is
                therefore using the resources assigned to it."
            ::= { hostControlEntry 5 }
        hostControlStatus OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX EntryStatus
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The status of this hostControl entry.
                If this object is not equal to valid(1), all
                associated entries in the hostTable,
                hostTimeTable, and the hostTopNTable shall be
                deleted by the agent."
            ::= { hostControlEntry 6 }

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        hostTable OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF HostEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A list of host entries."
            ::= { hosts 2 }
        hostEntry OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX HostEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A collection of statistics for a particular host
                that has been discovered on an interface of this
                device."
            INDEX { hostIndex, hostAddress }
            ::= { hostTable 1 }
        HostEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
            hostAddress             OCTET STRING,
            hostCreationOrder       INTEGER (1..65535),
            hostIndex               INTEGER (1..65535),
            hostInPkts              Counter,
            hostOutPkts             Counter,
            hostInOctets            Counter,
            hostOutOctets           Counter,
            hostOutErrors           Counter,
            hostOutBroadcastPkts    Counter,
            hostOutMulticastPkts    Counter
        }
        hostAddress OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX OCTET STRING
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The physical address of this host."
            ::= { hostEntry 1 }
        hostCreationOrder OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..65535)
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "An index that defines the relative ordering of
                the creation time of hosts captured for a
                particular hostControlEntry.  This index shall

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                be between 1 and N, where N is the value of
                the associated hostControlTableSize.  The ordering
                of the indexes is based on the order of each entry's
                insertion into the table, in which entries added
                earlier have a lower index value than entries added
                later.
                It is important to note that the order for a
                particular entry may change as an (earlier) entry
                is deleted from the table.  Because this order may
                change, management stations should make use of the
                hostControlLastDeleteTime variable in the
                hostControlEntry associated with the relevant
                portion of the hostTable.  By observing
                this variable, the management station may detect
                the circumstances where a previous association
                between a value of hostCreationOrder
                and a hostEntry may no longer hold."
            ::= { hostEntry 2 }
        hostIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..65535)
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The set of collected host statistics of which
                this entry is a part.  The set of hosts
                identified by a particular value of this
                index is associated with the hostControlEntry
                as identified by the same value of hostControlIndex."
            ::= { hostEntry 3 }
        hostInPkts OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of packets without errors transmitted to
                this address since it was added to the hostTable."
            ::= { hostEntry 4 }
        hostOutPkts OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of packets including errors transmitted
                by this address since it was added to the hostTable."

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            ::= { hostEntry 5 }
        hostInOctets OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of octets transmitted to this address
                since it was added to the hostTable (excluding
                framing bits but including FCS octets), except for
                those octets in packets that contained errors."
            ::= { hostEntry 6 }
        hostOutOctets OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of octets transmitted by this address
                since it was added to the hostTable (excluding
                framing bits but including FCS octets), including
                those octets in packets that contained errors."
            ::= { hostEntry 7 }
        hostOutErrors OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of error packets transmitted by this
                address since this host was added to the hostTable."
            ::= { hostEntry 8 }
        hostOutBroadcastPkts OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of good packets transmitted by this
                address that were directed to the broadcast address
                since this host was added to the hostTable."
            ::= { hostEntry 9 }
        hostOutMulticastPkts OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION

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                "The number of good packets transmitted by this
                address that were directed to a multicast address
                since this host was added to the hostTable.
                Note that this number does not include packets
                directed to the broadcast address."
            ::= { hostEntry 10 }
  1. - host Time Table
        hostTimeTable OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF HostTimeEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A list of time-ordered host table entries."
            ::= { hosts 3 }
        hostTimeEntry OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX HostTimeEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A collection of statistics for a particular host
                that has been discovered on an interface of this
                device.  This collection includes the relative
                ordering of the creation time of this object."
            INDEX { hostTimeIndex, hostTimeCreationOrder }
            ::= { hostTimeTable 1 }
        HostTimeEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
            hostTimeAddress              OCTET STRING,
            hostTimeCreationOrder        INTEGER (1..65535),
            hostTimeIndex                INTEGER (1..65535),
            hostTimeInPkts               Counter,
            hostTimeOutPkts              Counter,
            hostTimeInOctets             Counter,
            hostTimeOutOctets            Counter,
            hostTimeOutErrors            Counter,
            hostTimeOutBroadcastPkts     Counter,
            hostTimeOutMulticastPkts     Counter
        }
        hostTimeAddress OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX OCTET STRING
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION

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                "The physical address of this host."
            ::= { hostTimeEntry 1 }
        hostTimeCreationOrder OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..65535)
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "An index that uniquely identifies an entry in
                the hostTime table among those entries associated
                with the same hostControlEntry.  This index shall
                be between 1 and N, where N is the value of
                the associated hostControlTableSize.  The ordering
                of the indexes is based on the order of each entry's
                insertion into the table, in which entries added
                earlier have a lower index value than entries added
                later.  Thus the management station has the ability
                to learn of new entries added to this table without
                downloading the entire table.
                It is important to note that the index for a
                particular entry may change as an (earlier) entry
                is deleted from the table.  Because this order may
                change, management stations should make use of the
                hostControlLastDeleteTime variable in the
                hostControlEntry associated with the relevant
                portion of the hostTimeTable.  By observing
                this variable, the management station may detect
                the circumstances where a download of the table
                may have missed entries, and where a previous
                association between a value of hostTimeCreationOrder
                and a hostTimeEntry may no longer hold."
            ::= { hostTimeEntry 2 }
        hostTimeIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..65535)
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The set of collected host statistics of which
                this entry is a part.  The set of hosts
                identified by a particular value of this
                index is associated with the hostControlEntry
                as identified by the same value of hostControlIndex."
            ::= { hostTimeEntry 3 }

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        hostTimeInPkts OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of packets without errors transmitted to
                this address since it was added to the hostTimeTable."
            ::= { hostTimeEntry 4 }
        hostTimeOutPkts OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of packets including errors transmitted
                by this address since it was added to the
                hostTimeTable."
            ::= { hostTimeEntry 5 }
        hostTimeInOctets OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of octets transmitted to this address
                since it was added to the hostTimeTable (excluding
                framing bits but including FCS octets), except for
                those octets in packets that contained errors."
            ::= { hostTimeEntry 6 }
        hostTimeOutOctets OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of octets transmitted by this address since
                it was added to the hostTimeTable (excluding framing
                bits but including FCS octets), including those
                octets in packets that contained errors."
            ::= { hostTimeEntry 7 }
        hostTimeOutErrors OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of error packets transmitted by this
                address since this host was added to the

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                hostTimeTable."
            ::= { hostTimeEntry 8 }
        hostTimeOutBroadcastPkts OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of good packets transmitted by this
                address that were directed to the broadcast address
                since this host was added to the hostTimeTable."
            ::= { hostTimeEntry 9 }
        hostTimeOutMulticastPkts OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of good packets transmitted by this
                address that were directed to a multicast address
                since this host was added to the hostTimeTable.
                Note that this number does not include packets
                directed to the broadcast address."
            ::= { hostTimeEntry 10 }
  1. - The Host Top "N" Group
  1. - Implementation of the Host Top N group is optional.
  2. -
  3. - The Host Top N group requires the implementation of the
  4. - host group.
  5. -
  6. - The Host Top N group is used to prepare reports that
  7. - describe the hosts that top a list ordered by one of
  8. - their statistics. The available statistics are samples
  9. - of one of their base statistics, over an interval
  10. - specified by the management station. Thus, these
  11. - statistics are rate based. The management
  12. - station also selects how many such hosts are reported.
  1. - The hostTopNControlTable is used to initiate the generation
  2. - of such a report. The management station may select the
  3. - parameters of such a report, such as which interface,
  4. - which statistic, how many hosts, and the start and stop
  5. - times of the sampling. When the report is prepared,
  6. - entries are created in the hostTopNTable associated with
  7. - the relevant hostTopNControlEntry. These entries are

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  1. - static for each report after it has been prepared.
        hostTopNControlTable OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF HostTopNControlEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A list of top N host control entries."
            ::= { hostTopN 1 }
        hostTopNControlEntry OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX HostTopNControlEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A set of parameters that control the creation of a
                report of the top N hosts according to several
                metrics."
            INDEX { hostTopNControlIndex }
            ::= { hostTopNControlTable 1 }
        HostTopNControlEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
            hostTopNControlIndex    INTEGER (1..65535),
            hostTopNHostIndex       INTEGER (1..65535),
            hostTopNRateBase        INTEGER,
            hostTopNTimeRemaining   INTEGER,
            hostTopNDuration        INTEGER,
            hostTopNRequestedSize   INTEGER,
            hostTopNGrantedSize     INTEGER,
            hostTopNStartTime       TimeTicks,
            hostTopNOwner           OwnerString,
            hostTopNStatus          INTEGER
        }
        hostTopNControlIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..65535)
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "An index that uniquely identifies an entry
                in the hostTopNControl table.  Each such
                entry defines one top N report prepared for
                one interface."
            ::= { hostTopNControlEntry 1 }
        hostTopNHostIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..65535)
            ACCESS read-write

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            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The host table for which a top N report will be
                prepared on behalf of this entry.  The host table
                identified by a particular value of this index is
                associated with the same host table as identified
                by the same value of hostIndex.
                This object may not be modified if the associated
                hostTopNStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            ::= { hostTopNControlEntry 2 }
        hostTopNRateBase OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER {
                    hostTopNInPkts(1),
                    hostTopNOutPkts(2),
                    hostTopNInOctets(3),
                    hostTopNOutOctets(4),
                    hostTopNOutErrors(5),
                    hostTopNOutBroadcastPkts(6),
                    hostTopNOutMulticastPkts(7)
            }
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The variable for each host that the hostTopNRate
                variable is based upon.
                This object may not be modified if the associated
                hostTopNStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            ::= { hostTopNControlEntry 3 }
        hostTopNTimeRemaining OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of seconds left in the report currently
                being collected.  When this object is modified by
                the management station, a new collection is started,
                possibly aborting a currently running report.  The
                new value is used as the requested duration of this
                report, which is loaded into the associated
                hostTopNDuration object.
                When this object is set to a non-zero value, any
                associated hostTopNEntries shall be made
                inaccessible by the monitor.  While the value of this

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                object is non-zero, it decrements by one per second
                until it reaches zero.  During this time, all
                associated hostTopNEntries shall remain
                inaccessible.  At the time that this object
                decrements to zero, the report is made
                accessible in the hostTopNTable.  Thus, the hostTopN
                table needs to be created only at the end of the
                collection interval."
            DEFVAL { 0 }
            ::= { hostTopNControlEntry 4 }
        hostTopNDuration OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of seconds that this report has collected
                during the last sampling interval, or if this
                report is currently being collected, the number
                of seconds that this report is being collected
                during this sampling interval.
                When the associated hostTopNTimeRemaining object is
                set, this object shall be set by the probe to the
                same value and shall not be modified until the next
                time the hostTopNTimeRemaining is set.
                This value shall be zero if no reports have been
                requested for this hostTopNControlEntry."
            DEFVAL { 0 }
            ::= { hostTopNControlEntry 5 }
        hostTopNRequestedSize OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The maximum number of hosts requested for the top N
                table.
                When this object is created or modified, the probe
                should set hostTopNGrantedSize as closely to this
                object as is possible for the particular probe
                implementation and available resources."
            DEFVAL { 10 }
            ::= { hostTopNControlEntry 6 }

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        hostTopNGrantedSize OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The maximum number of hosts in the top N table.
                When the associated hostTopNRequestedSize object is
                created or modified, the probe should set this
                object as closely to the requested value as is
                possible for the particular implementation and
                available resources. The probe must not lower this
                value except as a result of a set to the associated
                hostTopNRequestedSize object.
                Hosts with the highest value of hostTopNRate shall be
                placed in this table in decreasing order of this rate
                until there is no more room or until there are no more
                hosts."
            ::= { hostTopNControlEntry 7 }
        hostTopNStartTime OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX TimeTicks
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The value of sysUpTime when this top N report was
                last started.  In other words, this is the time that
                the associated hostTopNTimeRemaining object was
                modified to start the requested report."
            ::= { hostTopNControlEntry 8 }
        hostTopNOwner OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX OwnerString
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The entity that configured this entry and is
                therefore using the resources assigned to it."
            ::= { hostTopNControlEntry 9 }
        hostTopNStatus OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX EntryStatus
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The status of this hostTopNControl entry.

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                If this object is not equal to valid(1), all
                associated hostTopNEntries shall be deleted by
                the agent."
            ::= { hostTopNControlEntry 10 }
        hostTopNTable OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF HostTopNEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A list of top N host entries."
            ::= { hostTopN 2 }
        hostTopNEntry OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX HostTopNEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A set of statistics for a host that is part of a
                top N report."
            INDEX { hostTopNReport, hostTopNIndex }
            ::= { hostTopNTable 1 }
        HostTopNEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
            hostTopNReport                INTEGER (1..65535),
            hostTopNIndex                 INTEGER (1..65535),
            hostTopNAddress               OCTET STRING,
            hostTopNRate                  INTEGER
        }
        hostTopNReport OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..65535)
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "This object identifies the top N report of which
                this entry is a part.  The set of hosts
                identified by a particular value of this
                object is part of the same report as identified
                by the same value of the hostTopNControlIndex object."
            ::= { hostTopNEntry 1 }
        hostTopNIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..65535)
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "An index that uniquely identifies an entry in

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                the hostTopN table among those in the same report.
                This index is between 1 and N, where N is the
                number of entries in this table.  Increasing values
                of hostTopNIndex shall be assigned to entries with
                decreasing values of hostTopNRate until index N
                is assigned to the entry with the lowest value of
                hostTopNRate or there are no more hostTopNEntries."
            ::= { hostTopNEntry 2 }
        hostTopNAddress OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX OCTET STRING
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The physical address of this host."
            ::= { hostTopNEntry 3 }
        hostTopNRate OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The amount of change in the selected variable
                during this sampling interval.  The selected
                variable is this host's instance of the object
                selected by hostTopNRateBase."
            ::= { hostTopNEntry 4 }
  1. - The Matrix Group
  1. - Implementation of the Matrix group is optional.
  2. -
  3. - The Matrix group consists of the matrixControlTable,
  4. - matrixSDTable and the matrixDSTable. These tables
  5. - store statistics for a particular conversation between
  6. - two addresses. As the device detects a new conversation,
  7. - including those to a non-unicast address, it creates a
  8. - new entry in both of the matrix tables.
  9. - It must only create new entries based on information
  10. - received in good packets. If the monitoring device finds
  11. - itself short of resources, it may delete entries as needed.
  12. - It is suggested that the device delete the least recently
  13. - used entries first.
        matrixControlTable OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF MatrixControlEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible

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            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A list of information entries for the
                traffic matrix on each interface."
            ::= { matrix 1 }
        matrixControlEntry OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX MatrixControlEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "Information about a traffic matrix on a
                particular interface."
            INDEX { matrixControlIndex }
            ::= { matrixControlTable 1 }
        MatrixControlEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
            matrixControlIndex           INTEGER (1..65535),
            matrixControlDataSource      OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
            matrixControlTableSize       INTEGER,
            matrixControlLastDeleteTime  TimeTicks,
            matrixControlOwner           OwnerString,
            matrixControlStatus          INTEGER
        }
        matrixControlIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..65535)
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "An index that uniquely identifies an entry in the
                matrixControl table.  Each such entry defines
                a function that discovers conversations on a particular
                interface and places statistics about them in the
                matrixSDTable and the matrixDSTable on behalf of this
                matrixControlEntry."
            ::= { matrixControlEntry 1 }
        matrixControlDataSource OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX OBJECT IDENTIFIER
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "This object identifies the source of
                the data from which this entry creates a traffic matrix.
                This source can be any interface on this device.  In
                order to identify a particular interface, this object
                shall identify the instance of the ifIndex object,

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                defined in [4,6], for the desired interface.  For
                example, if an entry were to receive data from
                interface #1, this object would be set to ifIndex.1.
                The statistics in this group reflect all packets
                on the local network segment attached to the
                identified interface.
                This object may not be modified if the associated
                matrixControlStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            ::= { matrixControlEntry 2 }
        matrixControlTableSize OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of matrixSDEntries in the matrixSDTable
                for this interface.  This must also be the value of
                the number of entries in the matrixDSTable for this
                interface."
            ::= { matrixControlEntry 3 }
        matrixControlLastDeleteTime OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX TimeTicks
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The value of sysUpTime when the last entry
                was deleted from the portion of the matrixSDTable
                or matrixDSTable associated with this
                matrixControlEntry.
                If no deletions have occurred, this value shall be
                zero."
            ::= { matrixControlEntry 4 }
        matrixControlOwner OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX OwnerString
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The entity that configured this entry and is
                therefore using the resources assigned to it."
            ::= { matrixControlEntry 5 }
        matrixControlStatus OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX EntryStatus
            ACCESS read-write

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            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The status of this matrixControl entry.
                If this object is not equal to valid(1), all
                associated entries in the matrixSDTable and the
                matrixDSTable shall be deleted by the agent."
            ::= { matrixControlEntry 6 }
        matrixSDTable OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF MatrixSDEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A list of traffic matrix entries indexed by
                source and destination MAC address."
            ::= { matrix 2 }
        matrixSDEntry OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX MatrixSDEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A collection of statistics for communications between
                two addresses on a particular interface."
            INDEX { matrixSDIndex,
                    matrixSDSourceAddress, matrixSDDestAddress }
            ::= { matrixSDTable 1 }
        MatrixSDEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
            matrixSDSourceAddress       OCTET STRING,
            matrixSDDestAddress         OCTET STRING,
            matrixSDIndex               INTEGER (1..65535),
            matrixSDPkts                Counter,
            matrixSDOctets              Counter,
            matrixSDErrors              Counter
        }
        matrixSDSourceAddress OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX OCTET STRING
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The source physical address."
            ::= { matrixSDEntry 1 }

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        matrixSDDestAddress OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX OCTET STRING
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The destination physical address."
            ::= { matrixSDEntry 2 }
        matrixSDIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..65535)
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The set of collected matrix statistics of which
                this entry is a part.  The set of matrix statistics
                identified by a particular value of this index
                is associated with the same matrixControlEntry
                as identified by the same value of matrixControlIndex."
            ::= { matrixSDEntry 3 }
        matrixSDPkts OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of packets transmitted from the source
                address to the destination address (this number
                includes error packets)."
            ::= { matrixSDEntry 4 }
        matrixSDOctets OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of octets (excluding framing bits but
                including FCS octets) contained in all packets
                transmitted from the source address to the
                destination address."
            ::= { matrixSDEntry 5 }
        matrixSDErrors OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of error packets transmitted from
                the source address to the destination address."

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            ::= { matrixSDEntry 6 }
  1. - Traffic matrix tables from destination to source
        matrixDSTable OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF MatrixDSEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A list of traffic matrix entries indexed by
                destination and source MAC address."
            ::= { matrix 3 }
        matrixDSEntry OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX MatrixDSEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A collection of statistics for communications between
                two address on a particular interface."
            INDEX { matrixDSIndex,
                    matrixDSDestAddress, matrixDSSourceAddress }
            ::= { matrixDSTable 1 }
        MatrixDSEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
            matrixDSSourceAddress       OCTET STRING,
            matrixDSDestAddress         OCTET STRING,
            matrixDSIndex               INTEGER (1..65535),
            matrixDSPkts                Counter,
            matrixDSOctets              Counter,
            matrixDSErrors              Counter
        }
        matrixDSSourceAddress OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX OCTET STRING
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The source physical address."
            ::= { matrixDSEntry 1 }
        matrixDSDestAddress OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX OCTET STRING
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The destination physical address."

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            ::= { matrixDSEntry 2 }
        matrixDSIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..65535)
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The set of collected matrix statistics of which
                this entry is a part.  The set of matrix statistics
                identified by a particular value of this index
                is associated with the same matrixControlEntry
                as identified by the same value of matrixControlIndex."
            ::= { matrixDSEntry 3 }
        matrixDSPkts OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of packets transmitted from the source
                address to the destination address (this number
                includes error packets)."
            ::= { matrixDSEntry 4 }
        matrixDSOctets OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of octets (excluding framing bits
                but including FCS octets) contained in all packets
                transmitted from the source address to the
                destination address."
            ::= { matrixDSEntry 5 }
        matrixDSErrors OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of error packets transmitted from
                the source address to the destination address."
            ::= { matrixDSEntry 6 }
  1. - The Filter Group
  1. - Implementation of the Filter group is optional.

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  1. -
  2. - The Filter group allows packets to be captured with an
  3. - arbitrary filter expression. A logical data and
  4. - event stream or "channel" is formed by the packets
  5. - that match the filter expression.
  6. -
  7. - This filter mechanism allows the creation of an arbitrary
  8. - logical expression with which to filter packets. Each
  9. - filter associated with a channel is OR'ed with the others.
  10. - Within a filter, any bits checked in the data and status are
  11. - AND'ed with respect to other bits in the same filter. The
  12. - NotMask also allows for checking for inequality. Finally,
  13. - the channelAcceptType object allows for inversion of the
  14. - whole equation.
  15. -
  16. - The channel can be turned on or off, and can also
  17. - generate events when packets pass through it.
        filterTable OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF FilterEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A list of packet filter entries."
            ::= { filter 1 }
        filterEntry OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX FilterEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A set of parameters for a packet filter applied on a
                particular interface."
            INDEX { filterIndex }
            ::= { filterTable 1 }
        FilterEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
            filterIndex                 INTEGER (1..65535),
            filterChannelIndex          INTEGER (1..65535),
            filterPktDataOffset         INTEGER,
            filterPktData               OCTET STRING,
            filterPktDataMask           OCTET STRING,
            filterPktDataNotMask        OCTET STRING,
            filterPktStatus             INTEGER,
            filterPktStatusMask         INTEGER,
            filterPktStatusNotMask      INTEGER,
            filterOwner                 OwnerString,
            filterStatus                INTEGER

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        }
        filterIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..65535)
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "An index that uniquely identifies an entry
                in the filter table.  Each such entry defines
                one filter that is to be applied to every packet
                received on an interface."
            ::= { filterEntry 1 }
        filterChannelIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..65535)
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "This object identifies the channel of which this
                filter is a part.  The filters identified by a
                particular value of this object are associated
                with the same channel as identified by the same
                value of the channelIndex object."
            ::= { filterEntry 2 }
        filterPktDataOffset OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The offset from the beginning of each packet where
                a match of packet data will be attempted.  This offset
                is measured from the point in the physical layer
                packet after the framing bits, if any.  For example,
                in an Ethernet frame, this point is at the beginning
                of the destination MAC address.
                This object may not be modified if the associated
                filterStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            DEFVAL { 0 }
            ::= { filterEntry 3 }
        filterPktData OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX OCTET STRING
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The data that is to be matched with the input packet.

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                For each packet received, this filter and the
                accompanying filterPktDataMask and
                filterPktDataNotMask will be adjusted for the
                offset.  The only bits relevant to this
                match algorithm are those that have the corresponding
                filterPktDataMask bit equal to one.  The following
                three rules are then applied to every packet:
                (1) If the packet is too short and does not have data
                    corresponding to part of the filterPktData, the
                    packet will fail this data match.
                (2) For each relevant bit from the packet with the
                    corresponding filterPktDataNotMask bit set to
                    zero, if the bit from the packet is not equal to
                    the corresponding bit from the filterPktData,
                    then the packet will fail this data match.
                (3) If for every relevant bit from the packet with the
                    corresponding filterPktDataNotMask bit set to one,
                    the bit from the packet is equal to the
                    corresponding bit from the filterPktData, then
                    the packet will fail this data match.
                Any packets that have not failed any of the three
                matches above have passed this data match.
                This object may not be modified if the associated
                filterStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            ::= { filterEntry 4 }
        filterPktDataMask OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX OCTET STRING
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The mask that is applied to the match process.
                After adjusting this mask for the offset, only those
                bits in the received packet that correspond to bits
                set in this mask are relevant for further processing
                by the match algorithm.  The offset is applied to
                filterPktDataMask in the same way it is applied to
                the filter.  For the purposes of the matching
                algorithm, if the associated filterPktData object
                is longer than this mask, this mask is conceptually
                extended with '1' bits until it reaches the
                length of the filterPktData object.

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                This object may not be modified if the associated
                filterStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            ::= { filterEntry 5 }
        filterPktDataNotMask OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX OCTET STRING
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The inversion mask that is applied to the match
                process.  After adjusting this mask for the offset,
                those relevant bits in the received packet that
                correspond to bits cleared in this mask must all
                be equal to their corresponding bits in the
                filterPktData object for the packet to be accepted.
                In addition, at least one of those relevant
                bits in the received packet that correspond to bits
                set in this mask must be different to its
                corresponding bit in the filterPktData object.
                For the purposes of the matching algorithm, if
                the associated filterPktData object is longer than
                this mask, this mask is conceptually extended with
                '0' bits until it reaches the length of the
                filterPktData object.
                This object may not be modified if the associated
                filterStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            ::= { filterEntry 6 }
        filterPktStatus OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The status that is to be matched with the input
                packet.  The only bits relevant to this match
                algorithm are those that have the corresponding
                filterPktStatusMask bit equal to one.
                The following two rules are then applied to every
                packet:
                (1) For each relevant bit from the packet status
                    with the corresponding filterPktStatusNotMask
                    bit set to zero, if the bit from the packet
                    status is not equal to the corresponding bit
                    from the filterPktStatus, then the packet will

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                    fail this status match.
                (2) If for every relevant bit from the packet status
                    with the corresponding filterPktStatusNotMask
                    bit set to one, the bit from the packet status
                    is equal to the corresponding bit from the
                    filterPktStatus, then the packet will fail
                    this status match.
                Any packets that have not failed either of the two
                matches above have passed this status match.
                The value of the packet status is a sum.  This sum
                initially takes the value zero.  Then, for each
                error, E, that has been discovered in this packet,
                2 raised to a value representing E is added to the sum.
                The errors and the bits that represent them are
                dependent on the media type of the interface that
                this channel is receiving packets from.
                The errors defined for a packet captured off of an
                Ethernet interface are as follows:
                    bit #    Error
                        0    Packet is longer than 1518 octets
                        1    Packet is shorter than 64 octets
                        2    Packet experienced a CRC or Alignment
                             error
                For example, an Ethernet fragment would have a
                value of 6 (2^1 + 2^2).
                As this MIB is expanded to new media types, this
                object will have other media-specific errors defined.
                For the purposes of this status matching algorithm, if
                the packet status is longer than this
                object, filterPktStatus this object is conceptually
                extended with '0' bits until it reaches the size of
                the packet status.
                This object may not be modified if the associated
                filterStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            ::= { filterEntry 7 }
        filterPktStatusMask OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-write

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            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The mask that is applied to the status match process.
                Only those bits in the received packet that correspond
                to bits set in this mask are relevant for further
                processing by the status match algorithm.  For the
                purposes of the matching algorithm, if the
                associated filterPktStatus object is longer than
                this mask, this mask is conceptually extended with
                '1' bits until it reaches the size of the
                filterPktStatus.  In addition, if a packet status is
                longer than this mask, this mask is conceptually
                extended with '0' bits until it reaches the size of
                the packet status.
                This object may not be modified if the associated
                filterStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            ::= { filterEntry 8 }
        filterPktStatusNotMask OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The inversion mask that is applied to the status match
                process.  Those relevant bits in the received packet
                status that correspond to bits cleared in this mask
                must all be equal to their corresponding bits in the
                filterPktStatus object for the packet to be accepted.
                In addition, at least one of those relevant bits in the
                received packet status that correspond to bits set in
                this mask must be different to its corresponding bit
                in the filterPktStatus object for the packet to be
                accepted.
                For the purposes of the matching algorithm, if the
                associated filterPktStatus object or a packet status
                is longer than this mask, this mask is conceptually
                extended with '0' bits until it reaches the longer of
                the lengths of the filterPktStatus object and the
                packet status.
                This object may not be modified if the associated
                filterStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            ::= { filterEntry 9 }
        filterOwner OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX OwnerString

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            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The entity that configured this entry and is
                therefore using the resources assigned to it."
            ::= { filterEntry 10 }
        filterStatus OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX EntryStatus
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The status of this filter entry."
            ::= { filterEntry 11 }
        channelTable OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF ChannelEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A list of packet channel entries."
            ::= { filter 2 }
        channelEntry OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX ChannelEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A set of parameters for a packet channel applied on a
                particular interface."
            INDEX { channelIndex }
            ::= { channelTable 1 }
        ChannelEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
            channelIndex                 INTEGER (1..65535),
            channelIfIndex               INTEGER (1..65535),
            channelAcceptType            INTEGER,
            channelDataControl           INTEGER,
            channelTurnOnEventIndex      INTEGER (0..65535),
            channelTurnOffEventIndex     INTEGER (0..65535),
            channelEventIndex            INTEGER (0..65535),
            channelEventStatus           INTEGER,
            channelMatches               Counter,
            channelDescription           DisplayString (SIZE (0..127)),
            channelOwner                 OwnerString,
            channelStatus                INTEGER
        }

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        channelIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..65535)
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "An index that uniquely identifies an entry
                in the channel table.  Each such
                entry defines one channel, a logical data
                and event stream."
            ::= { channelEntry 1 }
        channelIfIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..65535)
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The value of this object uniquely identifies the
                interface on this remote network monitoring device
                to which the associated filters are applied to allow
                data into this channel.  The interface identified by
                a particular value of this object is the same
                interface as identified by the same value of the
                ifIndex object, defined in [4,6].  The filters in
                this group are applied to all packets on the local
                network segment attached to the identified
                interface.
                This object may not be modified if the associated
                channelStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            ::= { channelEntry 2 }
        channelAcceptType OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER {
                acceptMatched(1),
                acceptFailed(2)
            }
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "This object controls the action of the filters
                associated with this channel.  If this object is equal
                to acceptMatched(1), packets will be accepted to this
                channel if they are accepted by both the packet data
                and packet status matches of an associated filter. If
                this object is equal to acceptFailed(2), packets will
                be accepted to this channel only if they fail either
                the packet data match or the packet status match of
                each of the associated filters.

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                This object may not be modified if the associated
                channelStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            ::= { channelEntry 3 }
        channelDataControl OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER {
                on(1),
                off(2)
            }
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "This object controls the flow of data through this
                channel.  If this object is on(1), data, status and
                events flow through this channel.  If this object is
                off(2), data, status and events will not flow through
                this channel."
            DEFVAL { off }
            ::= { channelEntry 4 }
        channelTurnOnEventIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (0..65535)
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The value of this object identifies the event
                that is configured to turn the associated
                channelDataControl from off to on when the event is
                generated.  The event identified by a particular value
                of this object is the same event as identified by the
                same value of the eventIndex object.  If there is no
                corresponding entry in the eventTable, then no
                association exists.  In fact, if no event is intended
                for this channel, channelTurnOnEventIndex must be
                set to zero, a non-existent event index.
                This object may not be modified if the associated
                channelStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            ::= { channelEntry 5 }
        channelTurnOffEventIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (0..65535)
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The value of this object identifies the event
                that is configured to turn the associated
                channelDataControl from on to off when the event is

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                generated.  The event identified by a particular value
                of this object is the same event as identified by the
                same value of the eventIndex object.  If there is no
                corresponding entry in the eventTable, then no
                association exists.  In fact, if no event is intended
                for this channel, channelTurnOffEventIndex must be
                set to zero, a non-existent event index.
                This object may not be modified if the associated
                channelStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            ::= { channelEntry 6 }
        channelEventIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (0..65535)
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The value of this object identifies the event
                that is configured to be generated when the
                associated channelDataControl is on and a packet
                is matched.  The event identified by a particular value
                of this object is the same event as identified by the
                same value of the eventIndex object.  If there is no
                corresponding entry in the eventTable, then no
                association exists.  In fact, if no event is intended
                for this channel, channelEventIndex must be
                set to zero, a non-existent event index.
                This object may not be modified if the associated
                channelStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            ::= { channelEntry 7 }
        channelEventStatus OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER {
                eventReady(1),
                eventFired(2),
                eventAlwaysReady(3)
            }
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The event status of this channel.
                If this channel is configured to generate events
                when packets are matched, a means of controlling
                the flow of those events is often needed.  When
                this object is equal to eventReady(1), a single
                event may be generated, after which this object

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                will be set by the probe to eventFired(2).  While
                in the eventFired(2) state, no events will be
                generated until the object is modified to
                eventReady(1) (or eventAlwaysReady(3)).  The
                management station can thus easily respond to a
                notification of an event by re-enabling this object.
                If the management station wishes to disable this
                flow control and allow events to be generated
                at will, this object may be set to
                eventAlwaysReady(3).  Disabling the flow control
                is discouraged as it can result in high network
                traffic or other performance problems."
            DEFVAL { eventReady }
            ::= { channelEntry 8 }
        channelMatches OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX Counter
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of times this channel has matched a packet.
                Note that this object is updated even when
                channelDataControl is set to off."
            ::= { channelEntry 9 }
        channelDescription OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX DisplayString (SIZE (0..127))
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A comment describing this channel."
            ::= { channelEntry 10 }
        channelOwner OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX OwnerString
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The entity that configured this entry and is therefore
                using the resources assigned to it."
            ::= { channelEntry 11 }
        channelStatus OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX EntryStatus
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION

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                "The status of this channel entry."
            ::= { channelEntry 12 }
  1. - The Packet Capture Group
  1. - Implementation of the Packet Capture group is optional.
  2. -
  3. - The Packet Capture Group requires implementation of the
  4. - Filter Group.
  5. -
  6. - The Packet Capture group allows packets to be captured
  7. - upon a filter match. The bufferControlTable controls
  8. - the captured packets output from a channel that is
  9. - associated with it. The captured packets are placed
  10. - in entries in the captureBufferTable. These entries are
  11. - associated with the bufferControlEntry on whose behalf they
  12. - were stored.
        bufferControlTable OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF BufferControlEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A list of buffers control entries."
            ::= { capture 1 }
        bufferControlEntry OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX BufferControlEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A set of parameters that control the collection of
                a stream of packets that have matched filters."
            INDEX { bufferControlIndex }
            ::= { bufferControlTable 1 }
        BufferControlEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
            bufferControlIndex                INTEGER (1..65535),
            bufferControlChannelIndex         INTEGER (1..65535),
            bufferControlFullStatus           INTEGER,
            bufferControlFullAction           INTEGER,
            bufferControlCaptureSliceSize     INTEGER,
            bufferControlDownloadSliceSize    INTEGER,
            bufferControlDownloadOffset       INTEGER,
            bufferControlMaxOctetsRequested   INTEGER,
            bufferControlMaxOctetsGranted     INTEGER,
            bufferControlCapturedPackets      INTEGER,

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            bufferControlTurnOnTime           TimeTicks,
            bufferControlOwner                OwnerString,
            bufferControlStatus               INTEGER
        }
        bufferControlIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..65535)
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "An index that uniquely identifies an entry
                in the bufferControl table.  The value of this
                index shall never be zero.  Each such
                entry defines one set of packets that is
                captured and controlled by one or more filters."
            ::= { bufferControlEntry 1 }
        bufferControlChannelIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..65535)
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "An index that identifies the channel that is the
                source of packets for this bufferControl table.
                The channel identified by a particular value of this
                index is the same as identified by the same value of
                the channelIndex object.
                This object may not be modified if the associated
                bufferControlStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            ::= { bufferControlEntry 2 }
        bufferControlFullStatus OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER {
                    spaceAvailable(1),
                    full(2)
            }
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "This object shows whether the buffer has room to
                accept new packets or if it is full.
                If the status is spaceAvailable(1), the buffer is
                accepting new packets normally.  If the status is
                full(2) and the associated bufferControlFullAction
                object is wrapWhenFull, the buffer is accepting new
                packets by deleting enough of the oldest packets

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                to make room for new ones as they arrive.  Otherwise,
                if the status is full(2) and the
                bufferControlFullAction object is lockWhenFull,
                then the buffer has stopped collecting packets.
                When this object is set to full(2) the probe must
                not later set it to spaceAvailable(1) except in the
                case of a significant gain in resources such as
                an increase of bufferControlOctetsGranted.  In
                particular, the wrap-mode action of deleting old
                packets to make room for newly arrived packets
                must not affect the value of this object."
            ::= { bufferControlEntry 3 }
        bufferControlFullAction OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER {
                    lockWhenFull(1),
                    wrapWhenFull(2)    -- FIFO
            }
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "Controls the action of the buffer when it
                reaches the full status.  When in the lockWhenFull(1)
                state a packet is added to the buffer that
                fills the buffer, the bufferControlFullStatus will
                be set to full(2) and this buffer will stop capturing
                packets."
            ::= { bufferControlEntry 4 }
        bufferControlCaptureSliceSize OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The maximum number of octets of each packet
                that will be saved in this capture buffer.
                For example, if a 1500 octet packet is received by
                the probe and this object is set to 500, then only
                500 octets of the packet will be stored in the
                associated capture buffer.  If this variable is set
                to 0, the capture buffer will save as many octets
                as is possible.
                This object may not be modified if the associated
                bufferControlStatus object is equal to valid(1)."
            DEFVAL { 100 }
            ::= { bufferControlEntry 5 }

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        bufferControlDownloadSliceSize OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The maximum number of octets of each packet
                in this capture buffer that will be returned in
                an SNMP retrieval of that packet.  For example,
                if 500 octets of a packet have been stored in the
                associated capture buffer, the associated
                bufferControlDownloadOffset is 0, and this
                object is set to 100, then the captureBufferPacket
                object that contains the packet will contain only
                the first 100 octets of the packet.
                A prudent manager will take into account possible
                interoperability or fragmentation problems that may
                occur if the download slice size is set too large.
                In particular, conformant SNMP implementations are not
                required to accept messages whose length exceeds 484
                octets, although they are encouraged to support larger
                datagrams whenever feasible."
            DEFVAL { 100 }
            ::= { bufferControlEntry 6 }
        bufferControlDownloadOffset OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The offset of the first octet of each packet
                in this capture buffer that will be returned in
                an SNMP retrieval of that packet.  For example,
                if 500 octets of a packet have been stored in the
                associated capture buffer and this object is set to
                100, then the captureBufferPacket object that
                contains the packet will contain bytes starting
                100 octets into the packet."
            DEFVAL { 0 }
            ::= { bufferControlEntry 7 }
        bufferControlMaxOctetsRequested OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The requested maximum number of octets to be
                saved in this captureBuffer, including any

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                implementation-specific overhead. If this variable
                is set to -1, the capture buffer will save as many
                octets as is possible.
                When this object is created or modified, the probe
                should set bufferControlMaxOctetsGranted as closely
                to this object as is possible for the particular probe
                implementation and available resources.  However, if
                the object has the special value of -1, the probe
                must set bufferControlMaxOctetsGranted to -1."
            DEFVAL { -1 }
            ::= { bufferControlEntry 8 }
        bufferControlMaxOctetsGranted OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The maximum number of octets that can be
                saved in this captureBuffer, including overhead.
                If this variable is -1, the capture buffer will save
                as many octets as possible.
                When the bufferControlMaxOctetsRequested object is
                created or modified, the probe should set this object
                as closely to the requested value as is possible for
                the particular probe implementation and available
                resources.  However, if the request object has the
                special value of -1, the probe must set this object
                to -1.  The probe must not lower this value except
                as a result of a modification to the associated
                bufferControlMaxOctetsRequested object.
                When this maximum number of octets is reached
                and a new packet is to be added to this
                capture buffer and the corresponding
                bufferControlFullAction is set to wrapWhenFull(2),
                enough of the oldest packets associated with this
                capture buffer shall be deleted by the agent so
                that the new packet can be added.  If the
                corresponding bufferControlFullAction is set to
                lockWhenFull(1), the new packet shall be discarded.
                In either case, the probe must set
                bufferControlFullStatus to full(2).
                When the value of this object changes to a value less
                than the current value, entries are deleted from
                the captureBufferTable associated with this

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                bufferControlEntry.  Enough of the
                oldest of these captureBufferEntries shall be
                deleted by the agent so that the number of octets
                used remains less than or equal to the new value of
                this object.
                When the value of this object changes to a value greater
                than the current value, the number of associated
                captureBufferEntries may be allowed to grow."
            ::= { bufferControlEntry 9 }
        bufferControlCapturedPackets OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of packets currently in this captureBuffer."
            ::= { bufferControlEntry 10 }
        bufferControlTurnOnTime OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX TimeTicks
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The value of sysUpTime when this capture buffer was
                first turned on."
            ::= { bufferControlEntry 11 }
        bufferControlOwner OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX OwnerString
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The entity that configured this entry and is therefore
                using the resources assigned to it."
            ::= { bufferControlEntry 12 }
        bufferControlStatus OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX EntryStatus
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The status of this buffer Control Entry."
            ::= { bufferControlEntry 13 }
        captureBufferTable OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF CaptureBufferEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible

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            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A list of packets captured off of a channel."
            ::= { capture 2 }
        captureBufferEntry OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX CaptureBufferEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A packet captured off of an attached network."
            INDEX { captureBufferControlIndex, captureBufferIndex }
            ::= { captureBufferTable 1 }
        CaptureBufferEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
            captureBufferControlIndex   INTEGER (1..65535),
            captureBufferIndex          INTEGER,
            captureBufferPacketID       INTEGER,
            captureBufferPacketData     OCTET STRING,
            captureBufferPacketLength   INTEGER,
            captureBufferPacketTime     INTEGER,
            captureBufferPacketStatus   INTEGER
        }
        captureBufferControlIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..65535)
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The index of the bufferControlEntry with which
                this packet is associated."
            ::= { captureBufferEntry 1 }
        captureBufferIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "An index that uniquely identifies an entry
                in the captureBuffer table associated with a
                particular bufferControlEntry.  This index will
                start at 1 and increase by one for each new packet
                added with the same captureBufferControlIndex."
            ::= { captureBufferEntry 2 }
        captureBufferPacketID OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-only

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            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "An index that describes the order of packets
                that are received on a particular interface.
                The packetID of a packet captured on an
                interface is defined to be greater than the
                packetID's of all packets captured previously on
                the same interface.  As the captureBufferPacketID
                object has a maximum positive value of 2^31 - 1,
                any captureBufferPacketID object shall have the
                value of the associated packet's packetID mod 2^31."
            ::= { captureBufferEntry 3 }
        captureBufferPacketData OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX OCTET STRING
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The data inside the packet, starting at the beginning
                of the packet plus any offset specified in the
                associated bufferControlDownloadOffset, including any
                link level headers.  The length of the data in this
                object is the minimum of the length of the captured
                packet minus the offset, the length of the associated
                bufferControlCaptureSliceSize minus the offset, and the
                associated bufferControlDownloadSliceSize.  If this
                minimum is less than zero, this object shall have a
                length of zero."
            ::= { captureBufferEntry 4 }
        captureBufferPacketLength OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The actual length (off the wire) of the packet stored
                in this entry, including FCS octets."
            ::= { captureBufferEntry 5 }
        captureBufferPacketTime OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The number of milliseconds that had passed since
                this capture buffer was first turned on when this
                packet was captured."
            ::= { captureBufferEntry 6 }

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        captureBufferPacketStatus OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A value which indicates the error status of this
                packet.
                The value of this object is defined in the same way as
                filterPacketStatus.  The value is a sum.  This sum
                initially takes the value zero.  Then, for each
                error, E, that has been discovered in this packet,
                2 raised to a value representing E is added to the sum.
                The errors defined for a packet captured off of an
                Ethernet interface are as follows:
                    bit #    Error
                        0    Packet is longer than 1518 octets
                        1    Packet is shorter than 64 octets
                        2    Packet experienced a CRC or Alignment
                             error
                        3    First packet in this capture buffer after
                             it was detected that some packets were
                             not processed correctly.
                For example, an Ethernet fragment would have a
                value of 6 (2^1 + 2^2).
                As this MIB is expanded to new media types, this object
                will have other media-specific errors defined."
            ::= { captureBufferEntry 7 }
  1. - The Event Group
  1. - Implementation of the Event group is optional.
  2. -
  3. - The Event group controls the generation and notification
  4. - of events from this device. Each entry in the eventTable
  5. - describes the parameters of the event that can be triggered.
  6. - Each event entry is fired by an associated condition located
  7. - elsewhere in the MIB. An event entry may also be associated
  8. - with a function elsewhere in the MIB that will be executed
  9. - when the event is generated. For example, a channel may
  10. - be turned on or off by the firing of an event.
  11. -
  12. - Each eventEntry may optionally specify that a log entry

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  1. - be created on its behalf whenever the event occurs.
  2. - Each entry may also specify that notification should
  3. - occur by way of SNMP trap messages. In this case, the
  4. - community for the trap message is given in the associated
  5. - eventCommunity object. The enterprise and specific trap
  6. - fields of the trap are determined by the condition that
  7. - triggered the event. Three traps are defined in a companion
  8. - document: risingAlarm, fallingAlarm, and packetMatch.
  9. - If the eventTable is triggered by a condition specified
  10. - elsewhere, the enterprise and specific trap fields
  11. - must be specified for traps generated for that condition.
        eventTable OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF EventEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A list of events to be generated."
            ::= { event 1 }
        eventEntry OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX EventEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A set of parameters that describe an event to be
                generated when certain conditions are met."
            INDEX { eventIndex }
            ::= { eventTable 1 }
        EventEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
            eventIndex          INTEGER (1..65535),
            eventDescription    DisplayString (SIZE (0..127)),
            eventType           INTEGER,
            eventCommunity      OCTET STRING (SIZE (0..127)),
            eventLastTimeSent   TimeTicks,
            eventOwner          OwnerString,
            eventStatus         INTEGER
        }
        eventIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..65535)
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "An index that uniquely identifies an entry in the
                event table.  Each such entry defines one event that
                is to be generated when the appropriate conditions

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                occur."
            ::= { eventEntry 1 }
        eventDescription OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX DisplayString (SIZE (0..127))
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A comment describing this event entry."
            ::= { eventEntry 2 }
        eventType OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER {
                    none(1),
                    log(2),
                    snmp-trap(3),    -- send an SNMP trap
                    log-and-trap(4)
            }
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The type of notification that the probe will make
                about this event.  In the case of log, an entry is
                made in the log table for each event.  In the case of
                snmp-trap, an SNMP trap is sent to one or more
                management stations."
            ::= { eventEntry 3 }
        eventCommunity OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX OCTET STRING (SIZE (0..127))
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "If an SNMP trap is to be sent, it will be sent to
                the SNMP community specified by this octet string.
                In the future this table will be extended to include
                the party security mechanism.  This object shall be
                set to a string of length zero if it is intended that
                that mechanism be used to specify the destination of
                the trap."
            ::= { eventEntry 4 }
        eventLastTimeSent OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX TimeTicks
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The value of sysUpTime at the time this event

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                entry last generated an event.  If this entry has
                not generated any events, this value will be
                zero."
            ::= { eventEntry 5 }
        eventOwner OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX OwnerString
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The entity that configured this entry and is therefore
                using the resources assigned to it.
                If this object contains a string starting with 'monitor'
                and has associated entries in the log table, all
                connected management stations should retrieve those
                log entries, as they may have significance to all
                management stations connected to this device"
            ::= { eventEntry 6 }
        eventStatus OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX EntryStatus
            ACCESS read-write
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The status of this event entry.
                If this object is not equal to valid(1), all associated
                log entries shall be deleted by the agent."
            ::= { eventEntry 7 }
  1. -

logTable OBJECT-TYPE

            SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF LogEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A list of events that have been logged."
            ::= { event 2 }
        logEntry OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX LogEntry
            ACCESS not-accessible
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "A set of data describing an event that has been
                logged."
            INDEX { logEventIndex, logIndex }

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            ::= { logTable 1 }
        LogEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
            logEventIndex           INTEGER (1..65535),
            logIndex                INTEGER,
            logTime                 TimeTicks,
            logDescription          DisplayString (SIZE (0..255))
        }
        logEventIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER (1..65535)
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The event entry that generated this log
                entry.  The log identified by a particular
                value of this index is associated with the same
                eventEntry as identified by the same value
                of eventIndex."
            ::= { logEntry 1 }
        logIndex OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX INTEGER
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "An index that uniquely identifies an entry
                in the log table amongst those generated by the
                same eventEntries.  These indexes are
                assigned beginning with 1 and increase by one
                with each new log entry.  The association
                between values of logIndex and logEntries
                is fixed for the lifetime of each logEntry.
                The agent may choose to delete the oldest
                instances of logEntry as required because of
                lack of memory.  It is an implementation-specific
                matter as to when this deletion may occur."
            ::= { logEntry 2 }
        logTime OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX TimeTicks
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "The value of sysUpTime when this log entry was
                created."
            ::= { logEntry 3 }

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        logDescription OBJECT-TYPE
            SYNTAX DisplayString (SIZE (0..255))
            ACCESS read-only
            STATUS mandatory
            DESCRIPTION
                "An implementation dependent description of the
                event that activated this log entry."
            ::= { logEntry 4 }
        END

7. Acknowledgments

 This document was produced by the IETF Remote Network Monitoring
 Working Group.
 In addition, the comments of the following individuals are also
 acknowledged:
    Anne Ambler             Spider Systems
    Steve Bostock           Novell
    Gigi Chu                Hewlett-Packard
    Chuck Davin             MIT
    Gary Ellis              Hewlett-Packard
    Mike Erlinger           Lexcel
    Stephen Grau            Novell
    Martin Gray             Spider Systems
    Mark Hoerth             Hewlett-Packard
    Tim Lee-Thorp           Network General
    Anil Singhal            Frontier Software
    David Stevens           Network General
    Gerard White            Concord Communications

8. References

 [1] Cerf, V., "IAB Recommendations for the Development of Internet
     Network Management Standards", RFC 1052, NRI, April 1988.
 [2] Cerf, V., "Report of the Second Ad Hoc Network Management Review
     Group", RFC 1109, NRI, August 1989.
 [3] Rose M., and K. McCloghrie, "Structure and Identification of
     Management Information for TCP/IP-based internets", RFC 1155,
     Performance Systems International, Hughes LAN Systems, May 1990.
 [4] McCloghrie K., and M. Rose, "Management Information Base for
     Network Management of TCP/IP-based internets", RFC 1156, Hughes
     LAN Systems, Performance Systems International, May 1990.

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 [5] Case, J., Fedor, M., Schoffstall, M., and J. Davin, "Simple
     Network Management Protocol", RFC 1157, SNMP Research,
     Performance Systems International, Performance Systems
     International, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, May 1990.
 [6] McCloghrie K., and M. Rose, Editors, "Management Information Base
     for Network Management of TCP/IP-based internets", RFC 1213,
     Performance Systems International, March 1991.
 [7] Information processing systems - Open Systems Interconnection -
     Specification of Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1),
     International Organization for Standardization, International
     Standard 8824, December 1987.
 [8] Information processing systems - Open Systems Interconnection -
     Specification of Basic Encoding Rules for Abstract Notation One
     (ASN.1), International Organization for Standardization,
     International Standard 8825, December 1987.
 [9] Rose, M., and K. McCloghrie, Editors, "Concise MIB Definitions",
     RFC 1212, Performance Systems International, Hughes LAN Systems,
     March 1991.
[10] Rose, M., Editor, "A Convention for Defining Traps for use with
     the SNMP", RFC 1215, Performance Systems International, March
     1991.

Security Considerations

 Security issues are not discussed in this memo.

Author's Address

 Steven Waldbusser
 Carnegie Mellon University
 4910 Forbes Ave.
 Pittsburgh, PA 15213
 Phone: (412) 268-6628
 EMail: waldbusser@andrew.cmu.edu

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