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Network Working Group G. Mansfield Request for Comments: 2605 Cyber Solutions Inc. Obsoletes: 1567 S. Kille Category: Standards Track MessagingDirect Ltd.

                                                             June 1999
                  Directory Server Monitoring MIB

Status of this Memo

 This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
 Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
 improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
 Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
 and status of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

 Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

 This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB)
 for use with network management protocols in the Internet community.
 This memo obsoletes RFC 1567, "X.500 Directory Monitoring MIB". This
 memo extends that specification to a more generic MIB for monitoring
 one or more directory servers each of which may support multiple
 access protocols.  The MIB defined in this memo will be used in
 conjunction with the NETWORK-SERVICES-MIB [19] for monitoring
 Directory Servers.

Table of Contents

 1.  The SNMP Network Management Framework ....................... 2
 2.  The Directory Services Model ................................ 3
 3.  MIB Model for Directory Management .......................... 4
 4.  MIB design .................................................. 5
 5.  The Directory Server Monitoring MIB ......................... 5
 6.  Intellectual Property .......................................22
 7.  Changes from RFC1567 ........................................22
 8.  Acknowledgements ............................................22
 9.  References ..................................................23
 Security Considerations .........................................24
 Authors' Addresses ..............................................25
 Full Copyright Statement ........................................26

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1. The SNMP Network Management Framework

 The SNMP Network Management Framework presently consists of five
 major components:
  o   An overall architecture, described in RFC 2571 [1].
  o   Mechanisms for describing and naming objects and events for the
      purpose of management. The first version of this Structure of
      Management Information (SMI) is called SMIv1 and described in
      STD 16, RFC 1155 [2], STD 16, RFC 1212 [3] and RFC 1215 [4]. The
      second version, called SMIv2, is described in STD 58, RFC 2578
      [5], RFC 2579 [6] and RFC 2580 [7].
  o   Message protocols for transferring management information. The
      first version of the SNMP message protocol is called SNMPv1 and
      described in STD 15, RFC 1157 [8]. A second version of the SNMP
      message protocol, which is not an Internet standards track
      protocol, is called SNMPv2c and described in RFC 1901 [9] and
      RFC 1906 [10].  The third version of the message protocol is
      called SNMPv3 and described in RFC 1906 [10], RFC 2572 [11] and
      RFC 2574 [12].
  o   Protocol operations for accessing management information. The
      first set of protocol operations and associated PDU formats is
      described in STD 15, RFC 1157 [8]. A second set of protocol
      operations and associated PDU formats is described in RFC 1905
      [13].
  o   A set of fundamental applications described in RFC 2573 [14] and
      the view-based access control mechanism described in RFC 2575
      [15].
 Managed objects are accessed via a virtual information store, termed
 the Management Information Base or MIB.  Objects in the MIB are
 defined using the mechanisms defined in the SMI.
 This memo specifies a MIB module that is compliant to the SMIv2. A
 MIB conforming to the SMIv1 can be produced through the appropriate
 translations. The resulting translated MIB must be semantically
 equivalent, except where objects or events are omitted because no
 translation is possible (use of Counter64). Some machine readable
 information in SMIv2 will be converted into textual descriptions in
 SMIv1 during the translation process. However, this loss of machine
 readable information is not considered to change the semantics of the
 MIB.

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2. The Directory Services Model.

 The Directory comprises of a set of servers (Directory Servers).
 Clients or Directory User Agents (DUA) are provided access to the
 Directory which maybe local or distributed, by the Directory Servers.
 The server maybe a X.500 Directory System Agent (DSA) [16] running
 over the OSI suite of protocols or, a (C)LDAP[17,18] frontend to the
 X.500 Directory System Agent or, a native LDAP Directory Server
 running directly over TCP or other protocols, or a database acting as
 a backend to another server,  or any other application protocol, or
 any combination of the above. A Directory Server has one or more
 application protocol interfaces.  Through these interfaces the
 Directory Server interacts with the DUA and with the peer Directory
 Servers.
 Fig. 1 shows the case of a Directory Server that receives requests
 and sends back responses in some protocol. Fig. 2 shows one possible
 scenario where the Directory Server speaks multiple protocols.
                            +----------------+
                            |                |
                            |   Directory    | Directory Protocol
                            |     Server     X-------->
                            |                |
                            |                |
                            +----------------+
                                   FIG. 1.
                            +----------------+
                            |                |
             DSP <----------X                X--------> DAP
                            |   Directory    |
           Other            |     Server     |
        Protocol <----------X                X--------> LDAP
                            |                |
                            +----------------+
                                   FIG. 2.
 The Directory contains information in the form of entries. An entry
 is a collection of attributes and is uniquely identified by a name,
 the Distinguished Name (DN). The entries are arranged in a
 hierarchical tree-like structure called the Directory Information
 Tree (DIT).

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 A DUA requests a Directory Server to perform some operation on the
 Directory. The Directory Server is responsible for performing the
 operation and after completing its effort to carry out the request,
 returns a response to the DUA.
 A Directory Server may use information stored in its local database
 or interact with (chain the request to) other Directory Servers to
 service the DUA request. Alternatively, a Directory Server may return
 a reference to another Directory Server (referral).
 The local database of a Directory Server consists of the part of the
 Directory that is mastered by the Directory Server, the part of the
 Directory for which it keeps slave copies and cached information that
 is gathered during the operation of the Directory Server.
 In the connection oriented mode a DUA "binds" to a Directory Server
 with a particular identification. The Directory Server may
 authenticate the identity of the DUA. In the connectionless mode as
 is employed in CLDAP no binding and/or authentication is carried out
 between the DUA and the Directory Server.  The following type of
 operations are carried out by the Directory Server : Read, Compare,
 Addition of an Entry (AddEntry), Modification of an Entry
 (ModifyEntry), Modification of a DN (ModifyRDN), Deletion of an Entry
 (RemoveEntry), List, Search, Abandon. Some Directory Servers do not
 support some type of operations. For example CLDAP does not support
 AddEntry, ModifyEntry, ModifyRDN, RemoveEntry etc.  In response to
 requests results and/or errors are returned by the Directory Server.
 In the distributed Directory data is often replicated to enhance
 performance and for other advantages. The data to be replicated is
 transferred from the "Supplier" Directory Server to the "Consumer"
 Directory Server according to the replication agreement between the
 supplier and the receiver.

3. MIB Model for Directory Management.

 A Directory manager should be able to monitor all the Directory
 Servers in his/her domain of management. The Directory Servers may be
 running on one or more hosts and, multiple Directory Servers may be
 running on the same host.
 The manager may wish to monitor several aspects of the operational
 Directory Servers. He/she may want to know the process related
 aspects - the resource utilization of an operational Directory
 Server; the network service related aspects e.g. inbound-
 associations, outbound-associations, operational status, and finally
 the information specific to the Directory Server application - its
 operations and performance.

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 The MIB defined in this document covers the portion which is specific
 to Directory services. The network service related part of the MIB,
 and the host-resources related part of the MIB, as well as other
 parts of interest to a Manager monitoring the Directory services, are
 covered in separate documents [19] [20].
 The MIB will cover a group of Directory Servers. The grouping will be
 done on some logical basis by the administrator/manager.  In all
 cases, the grouping will be reflected in the pertinent NETWORK-
 SERVICES-MIB which will have an entry corresponding to each Directory
 Server in the group.

4. MIB design.

 The basic principle has been to keep the MIB as simple as possible.
 The Managed objects included in the MIB are divided into three tables
 - dsTable, dsApplIfOpsTable, and dsIntTable.
  1. The dsTable contains a list of Directory Servers. The list

contains a description of the Directory Servers as well as

      summary statistics on the entries held by and the cache
      performance of each Directory Server. The group of servers on
      this list is likely to contain a part of, if not all, the
      Directory Servers in the management domain.
  1. The dsApplIfOpsTable provides summary statistics on the

accesses, operations and errors for each application protocol

      interface of a Directory Server.
  1. The dsIntTable provides some useful information on the

interaction of the monitored Directory Servers with peer

      Directory Servers.
 There are references to the Directory itself for static information
 pertaining to the Directory Server. These references are in the form
 of "Directory Distinguished Name" [21] of the corresponding object.
 It is intended that Directory management applications will use these
 references to obtain further information on the objects of interest.

5. The Directory Server Monitoring MIB.

 DIRECTORY-SERVER-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN
  IMPORTS
    MODULE-IDENTITY,  Counter32, Gauge32, OBJECT-TYPE
               FROM SNMPv2-SMI
    mib-2      FROM RFC1213-MIB
    DisplayString,    TimeStamp

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               FROM SNMPv2-TC
    MODULE-COMPLIANCE, OBJECT-GROUP
               FROM SNMPv2-CONF
    ZeroBasedCounter32
               FROM RMON2-MIB
    applIndex, DistinguishedName, URLString
               FROM NETWORK-SERVICES-MIB;
  dsMIB MODULE-IDENTITY
     LAST-UPDATED "9906070000Z"
     ORGANIZATION "IETF Mail and Directory Management Working
                   Group"
     CONTACT-INFO
    "                      Glenn Mansfield
                   Postal: Cyber Solutions Inc.
                           6-6-3, Minami Yoshinari
                           Aoba-ku, Sendai, Japan 989-3204.
                      Tel: +81-22-303-4012
                      Fax: +81-22-303-4015
                 E-mail: glenn@cysols.com
     Working Group E-mail: ietf-madman@innosoft.com
             To subscribe: ietf-madman-request@innosoft.com"
     DESCRIPTION
             " The MIB module for monitoring Directory Services."
  1. - revision information
     REVISION "9906070000Z"
     DESCRIPTION
       "This revision of this MIB is published in RFC 2605.
        This revision obsoletes RFC 1567. It is incompatible with
        the original MIB and so it has been renamed from dsaMIB
        to dsMIB."
     REVISION "9311250000Z" -- 25th November 1993
     DESCRIPTION
       "The original version of this MIB was published in RFC 1567."
     ::= { mib-2 66 }
  dsTable OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF DsTableEntry
      MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION

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        " The table holding information related to the Directory
          Servers."
      ::= {dsMIB 1}
  dsTableEntry OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX DsTableEntry
      MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Entry containing summary description for a Directory
          Server."
      INDEX { applIndex }
      ::= {dsTable 1}
  1. - General description of the Directory Server application will be
  2. - available in the applTable of the NETWORK-SERVICES-MIB indexed by
  3. - applIndex.
  DsTableEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
      dsServerType
          BITS,
      dsServerDescription
          DisplayString,
  1. - Entry statistics/Cache performance

dsMasterEntries

          Gauge32,
      dsCopyEntries
          Gauge32,
      dsCacheEntries
          Gauge32,
      dsCacheHits
          Counter32,
      dsSlaveHits
          Counter32
  }
  dsServerType OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX BITS {
                   frontEndDirectoryServer(0),
                   backEndDirectoryServer(1)
             }
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        "This object indicates whether the server is
         a frontend or, a backend or, both. If the server
         is a frontend, then the frontEndDirectoryServer

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         bit will be set. Similarly for the backend."
      ::= {dsTableEntry 1}
  dsServerDescription OBJECT-TYPE
     SYNTAX DisplayString
     MAX-ACCESS read-only
     STATUS current
     DESCRIPTION
       "A text description of the application.  This information
        is intended to identify and briefly describe the
        application in a status display."
      ::= {dsTableEntry 2}
  1. - A (C)LDAP frontend to the X.500 Directory will not have
  2. - MasterEntries, CopyEntries; the following counters will
  3. - be inaccessible for LDAP/CLDAP frontends to the X.500
  4. - directory: dsMasterEntries, dsCopyEntries, dsSlaveHits.
  dsMasterEntries OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX Gauge32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Number of entries mastered in the Directory Server."
      ::= {dsTableEntry 3}
  dsCopyEntries OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX Gauge32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Number of entries for which systematic (slave)
          copies are maintained in the Directory Server."
      ::= {dsTableEntry 4}
  dsCacheEntries OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX Gauge32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Number of entries cached (non-systematic copies) in
          the Directory Server. This will include the entries that
          are cached partially. The negative cache is not counted."
      ::= {dsTableEntry 5}
  dsCacheHits OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX Counter32

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      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Number of operations that were serviced from
          the locally held cache."
      ::= {dsTableEntry 6}
  dsSlaveHits  OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX Counter32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Number of operations that were serviced from
          the locally held object replications ( copy-
          entries)."
      ::= {dsTableEntry 7}
  dsApplIfOpsTable OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF DsApplIfOpsEntry
      MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " The table holding information related to the
          Directory Server operations."
      ::= {dsMIB 2}
  dsApplIfOpsEntry OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX DsApplIfOpsEntry
      MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Entry containing operations related statistics
          for a Directory Server."
      INDEX { applIndex, dsApplIfProtocolIndex }
      ::= {dsApplIfOpsTable 1}
  DsApplIfOpsEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
      dsApplIfProtocolIndex
           INTEGER,
      dsApplIfProtocol
           OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
  1. - Bindings
      dsApplIfUnauthBinds
          Counter32,
      dsApplIfSimpleAuthBinds
          Counter32,

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      dsApplIfStrongAuthBinds
          Counter32,
      dsApplIfBindSecurityErrors
          Counter32,
  1. - In-coming operations
      dsApplIfInOps
          Counter32,
      dsApplIfReadOps
          Counter32,
      dsApplIfCompareOps
          Counter32,
      dsApplIfAddEntryOps
          Counter32,
      dsApplIfRemoveEntryOps
          Counter32,
      dsApplIfModifyEntryOps
          Counter32,
      dsApplIfModifyRDNOps
          Counter32,
      dsApplIfListOps
          Counter32,
      dsApplIfSearchOps
          Counter32,
      dsApplIfOneLevelSearchOps
          Counter32,
      dsApplIfWholeSubtreeSearchOps
          Counter32,
  1. - Out going operations
      dsApplIfReferrals
          Counter32,
      dsApplIfChainings
          Counter32,
  1. - Errors
      dsApplIfSecurityErrors
          Counter32,
      dsApplIfErrors
          Counter32,
  1. - replications
      dsApplIfReplicationUpdatesIn
          Counter32,

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      dsApplIfReplicationUpdatesOut
          Counter32,
  1. - Traffic Volume
      dsApplIfInBytes
          Counter32,
      dsApplIfOutBytes
          Counter32
  }
  1. - CLDAP does not use binds; for the CLDAP interface of a Directory
  2. - Server the bind related counters will be inaccessible.
  3. -
  4. - CLDAP and LDAP implement "Read" and "List" operations
  5. - indirectly via the "search" operation; the following
  6. - counters will be inaccessible for the CLDAP and LDAP interfaces of
  7. - Directory Servers: dsApplIfReadOps, dsApplIfListOps
  8. -
  9. - CLDAP does not implement "Compare", "Add", "Remove",
  10. - "Modify", "ModifyRDN"; the following counters will be
  11. - inaccessible for the CLDAP interfaces of Directory Servers:
  12. - dsApplIfCompareOps, dsApplIfAddEntryOps, dsApplIfRemoveEntryOps,
  13. - dsApplIfModifyEntryOps, dsApplIfModifyRDNOps.
  14. -
  15. - CLDAP Directory Servers do not return Referrals
  16. - the following fields will remain inaccessible for
  17. - CLDAP interfaces of Directory Servers: dsApplIfReferrals.
  dsApplIfProtocolIndex OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX INTEGER (1..2147483647)
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
       "An index to uniquely identify an entry corresponding to a
        application-layer protocol interface. This index is used
        for lexicographic ordering of the table."
      ::= {dsApplIfOpsEntry 1}
  dsApplIfProtocol OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX OBJECT IDENTIFIER
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
       "An identification of the protocol being used by the application
        on this interface.  For an OSI Application, this will be the
        Application Context.  For Internet applications, the IANA
        maintains a registry[22] of the OIDs which correspond to

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        well-known applications.  If the application protocol is
        not listed in the registry, an OID value of the form
        {applTCPProtoID port} or {applUDProtoID port} are used for
        TCP-based and UDP-based protocols, respectively. In either
        case 'port' corresponds to the primary port number being
        used by the protocol. The OIDs applTCPProtoID and
        applUDPProtoID are defined in NETWORK-SERVICES-MIB"
      ::= {dsApplIfOpsEntry 2}
  dsApplIfUnauthBinds OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX Counter32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Number of unauthenticated/anonymous bind requests
          received."
      ::= {dsApplIfOpsEntry 3}
  dsApplIfSimpleAuthBinds OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX Counter32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Number of bind requests that were authenticated
          using simple authentication procedures like password
          checks. This includes the
          password authentication using SASL mechanisms like
          CRAM-MD5."
      ::= {dsApplIfOpsEntry 4}
  dsApplIfStrongAuthBinds OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX Counter32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Number of bind requests that were authenticated
          using TLS and X.500 strong authentication procedures.
          This includes the binds that were
          authenticated using external authentication procedures."
      ::= {dsApplIfOpsEntry 5}
  dsApplIfBindSecurityErrors OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX Counter32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Number of bind requests that have been rejected
          due to inappropriate authentication or

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          invalid credentials."
      ::= {dsApplIfOpsEntry 6}
  dsApplIfInOps OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX Counter32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Number of requests received from DUAs or other
          Directory Servers."
      ::= {dsApplIfOpsEntry 7}
  dsApplIfReadOps OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX Counter32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Number of read requests  received."
      ::= {dsApplIfOpsEntry 8}
  dsApplIfCompareOps OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX Counter32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Number of compare requests received."
      ::= {dsApplIfOpsEntry 9}
  dsApplIfAddEntryOps OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX Counter32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Number of addEntry requests received."
      ::= {dsApplIfOpsEntry 10}
  dsApplIfRemoveEntryOps OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX Counter32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Number of removeEntry requests received."
      ::= {dsApplIfOpsEntry 11}
  dsApplIfModifyEntryOps OBJECT-TYPE

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      SYNTAX Counter32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Number of modifyEntry requests received."
      ::= {dsApplIfOpsEntry 12}
  dsApplIfModifyRDNOps OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX Counter32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Number of modifyRDN requests received."
      ::= {dsApplIfOpsEntry 13}
  dsApplIfListOps OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX Counter32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Number of list requests received."
      ::= {dsApplIfOpsEntry 14}
  dsApplIfSearchOps OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX Counter32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Number of search requests- baseObject searches,
          oneLevel searches and  whole subtree searches,
          received."
      ::= {dsApplIfOpsEntry 15}
  dsApplIfOneLevelSearchOps OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX Counter32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Number of oneLevel search requests received."
      ::= {dsApplIfOpsEntry 16}
  dsApplIfWholeSubtreeSearchOps   OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX Counter32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION

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        " Number of whole subtree search requests received."
      ::= {dsApplIfOpsEntry 17}
  dsApplIfReferrals OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX Counter32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Number of referrals returned in response
          to requests for operations."
      ::= {dsApplIfOpsEntry 18}
  dsApplIfChainings OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX Counter32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Number of operations forwarded by this Directory Server
          to other Directory Servers."
      ::= {dsApplIfOpsEntry 19}
  dsApplIfSecurityErrors OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX Counter32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Number of requests received
          which did not meet the security requirements. "
      ::= {dsApplIfOpsEntry 20}
  dsApplIfErrors  OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX Counter32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Number of requests that could not be serviced
          due to errors other than security errors, and
          referrals.
          A partially serviced operation will not be counted
          as an error.
          The errors include naming-related, update-related,
          attribute-related and service-related errors."
      ::= {dsApplIfOpsEntry 21}
  1. - Replication operations
  dsApplIfReplicationUpdatesIn OBJECT-TYPE

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      SYNTAX Counter32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Number of replication updates fetched or received from
          supplier Directory Servers."
      ::= {dsApplIfOpsEntry 22}
  dsApplIfReplicationUpdatesOut OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX Counter32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Number of replication updates sent to or taken by
          consumer Directory Servers."
      ::= {dsApplIfOpsEntry 23}
  dsApplIfInBytes  OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX Counter32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Incoming traffic, in bytes, on the interface.
          This will include requests from DUAs as well
          as responses from other Directory Servers."
      ::= {dsApplIfOpsEntry 24}
  dsApplIfOutBytes OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX Counter32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Outgoing traffic in bytes on the interface.
          This will include responses to DUAs and Directory
          Servers as well as requests to other Directory Servers."
      ::= {dsApplIfOpsEntry 25}
  1. - The dsIntTable contains statistical data on the peer
  2. - Directory Servers with which the monitored Directory
  3. - Server interacts or, attempts to interact. This table is
  4. - expected to provide a useful insight into the effect of
  5. - neighbours on the Directory Server's performance.
  6. - The table keeps track of the last "N" Directory Servers
  7. - with which the monitored Directory has interacted
  8. - (attempted to interact), where "N" is a locally-defined
  9. - constant.
  10. - For a multiprotocol server, statistics for each protocol

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  1. - are kept separetely.
  dsIntTable OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX  SEQUENCE OF DsIntEntry
      MAX-ACCESS  not-accessible
      STATUS  current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Each row of this table contains some details
          related to the history of the interaction
          of the monitored Directory Server with its
          peer Directory Servers."
      ::= { dsMIB 3 }
  dsIntEntry OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX  DsIntEntry
      MAX-ACCESS  not-accessible
      STATUS  current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Entry containing interaction details of a Directory
          Server with a peer Directory Server."
      INDEX { applIndex,dsIntEntIndex, dsApplIfProtocolIndex }
      ::= { dsIntTable 1 }
  DsIntEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
     dsIntEntIndex
               INTEGER,
     dsIntEntDirectoryName
               DistinguishedName,
     dsIntEntTimeOfCreation
               TimeStamp,
     dsIntEntTimeOfLastAttempt
               TimeStamp,
     dsIntEntTimeOfLastSuccess
               TimeStamp,
     dsIntEntFailuresSinceLastSuccess
               Gauge32,
     dsIntEntFailures
               ZeroBasedCounter32,
     dsIntEntSuccesses
               ZeroBasedCounter32,
     dsIntEntURL
               URLString
  }
  dsIntEntIndex  OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX INTEGER (1..2147483647)
      MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
      STATUS current

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      DESCRIPTION
        " Together with applIndex and dsApplIfProtocolIndex, this
          object forms the unique key to
          identify the conceptual row which contains useful info
          on the (attempted) interaction between the Directory
          Server (referred to by applIndex) and a peer Directory
          Server using a particular protocol."
      ::= {dsIntEntry 1}
  dsIntEntDirectoryName  OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX DistinguishedName
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Distinguished Name of the peer Directory Server to
          which this entry pertains."
      ::= {dsIntEntry 2}
  dsIntEntTimeOfCreation  OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX TimeStamp
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " The value of sysUpTime when this row was created.
          If the entry was created before the network management
          subsystem was initialized, this object will contain
          a value of zero."
      ::= {dsIntEntry 3}
  dsIntEntTimeOfLastAttempt  OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX TimeStamp
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " The value of sysUpTime when the last attempt was made
          to contact the peer Directory Server. If the last attempt
          was made before the network management subsystem was
          initialized, this object will contain a value of zero."
      ::= {dsIntEntry 4}
  dsIntEntTimeOfLastSuccess  OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX TimeStamp
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " The value of sysUpTime when the last attempt made to
          contact the peer Directory Server was successful. If there
          have been no successful attempts this entry will have a value

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          of zero. If the last successful attempt was made before
          the network management subsystem was initialized, this
          object will contain a value of zero."
      ::= {dsIntEntry 5}
  dsIntEntFailuresSinceLastSuccess  OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX Gauge32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " The number of failures since the last time an
          attempt to contact the peer Directory Server was successful.
          If there have been no successful attempts, this counter
          will contain the number of failures since this entry
          was created."
      ::= {dsIntEntry 6}
  1. - note this gauge has a maximum value of 4294967295 and,
  2. - it does not wrap.[5]
  dsIntEntFailures  OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Cumulative failures in contacting the peer Directory Server
          since the creation of this entry."
      ::= {dsIntEntry 7}
  dsIntEntSuccesses  OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX ZeroBasedCounter32
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " Cumulative successes in contacting the peer Directory Server
          since the creation of this entry."
      ::= {dsIntEntry 8}
  dsIntEntURL  OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX URLString
      MAX-ACCESS read-only
      STATUS current
      DESCRIPTION
        " URL of the peer Directory Server."
      ::= {dsIntEntry 9}
  1. - Conformance information

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  dsConformance OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { dsMIB 4 }
  dsGroups      OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { dsConformance 1 }
  dsCompliances OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { dsConformance 2 }
  1. - Compliance statements
  dsEntryCompliance MODULE-COMPLIANCE
      STATUS  current
      DESCRIPTION
              "The compliance statement for SNMP entities
              which implement the DIRECTORY-SERVER-MIB for
              a summary overview of the Directory Servers ."
      MODULE  -- this module
          MANDATORY-GROUPS { dsEntryGroup }
      ::= { dsCompliances 1 }
  dsOpsCompliance MODULE-COMPLIANCE
      STATUS  current
      DESCRIPTION
              "The compliance statement for SNMP entities
              which implement the DIRECTORY-SERVER-MIB for monitoring
              Directory Server operations,  entry statistics and cache
              performance."
      MODULE  -- this module
          MANDATORY-GROUPS { dsEntryGroup, dsOpsGroup }
      ::= { dsCompliances 2 }
  dsIntCompliance MODULE-COMPLIANCE
         STATUS  current
         DESCRIPTION
                 " The compliance statement  for SNMP  entities
                   which implement the DIRECTORY-SERVER-MIB for
                   monitoring Directory Server operations and the
                   interaction of the Directory Server with peer
                   Directory Servers."
         MODULE  -- this module
         MANDATORY-GROUPS { dsEntryGroup, dsIntGroup }
         ::= { dsCompliances 3 }
  dsOpsIntCompliance MODULE-COMPLIANCE
      STATUS  current

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      DESCRIPTION
              " The compliance statement  for SNMP  entities
                which implement the DIRECTORY-SERVER-MIB for monitoring
                Directory Server operations and the interaction of the
                Directory Server with peer Directory Servers."
      MODULE  -- this module
      MANDATORY-GROUPS { dsEntryGroup, dsOpsGroup, dsIntGroup }
      ::= { dsCompliances 4 }
  1. - Units of conformance
  dsEntryGroup    OBJECT-GROUP
      OBJECTS {dsServerType,            dsServerDescription,
               dsMasterEntries,         dsCopyEntries,
               dsCacheEntries,          dsCacheHits,
               dsSlaveHits}
      STATUS  current
      DESCRIPTION
              " A collection of objects for a summary overview of the
                Directory Servers."
      ::= { dsGroups 1 }
  dsOpsGroup    OBJECT-GROUP
      OBJECTS {
        dsApplIfProtocolIndex,          dsApplIfProtocol,
        dsApplIfUnauthBinds,            dsApplIfSimpleAuthBinds,
        dsApplIfStrongAuthBinds,        dsApplIfBindSecurityErrors,
        dsApplIfInOps,                  dsApplIfReadOps,
        dsApplIfCompareOps,             dsApplIfAddEntryOps,
        dsApplIfRemoveEntryOps,         dsApplIfModifyEntryOps,
        dsApplIfModifyRDNOps,           dsApplIfListOps,
        dsApplIfSearchOps,              dsApplIfOneLevelSearchOps,
        dsApplIfWholeSubtreeSearchOps,  dsApplIfReferrals,
        dsApplIfChainings,              dsApplIfSecurityErrors,
        dsApplIfErrors,                 dsApplIfReplicationUpdatesIn,
        dsApplIfReplicationUpdatesOut,  dsApplIfInBytes,
        dsApplIfOutBytes      }
      STATUS  current
      DESCRIPTION
              " A collection of objects for monitoring the Directory
                Server operations."
      ::= { dsGroups 2 }
  dsIntGroup    OBJECT-GROUP
      OBJECTS {

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        dsIntEntDirectoryName,         dsIntEntTimeOfCreation,
        dsIntEntTimeOfLastAttempt,     dsIntEntTimeOfLastSuccess,
        dsIntEntFailuresSinceLastSuccess, dsIntEntFailures,
        dsIntEntSuccesses,             dsIntEntURL}
      STATUS  current
      DESCRIPTION
              " A collection of objects for monitoring the Directory
                Server's interaction with peer Directory Servers."
      ::= { dsGroups 3 }
 END

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 The IETF invites any interested party to bring to its attention any
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 Director.

7. Changes from RFC1567.

 A more general Directory model in which, several Directory protocols
 coexist, has been adopted for the purpose of the MIB design. The
 result is a generic Directory Server Monitoring MIB.

8. Acknowledgements

 This memo is the product of discussions and deliberations carried out
 in the Mail and Directory Management Working Group (ietf-madman-wg).

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References

 [1]  Harrington, D., Presuhn, R. and B. Wijnen, "An Architecture for
      Describing SNMP Management Frameworks", RFC 2571, April 1999.
 [2]  Rose, M. and K. McCloghrie, "Structure and Identification of
      Management Information for TCP/IP-based Internets", STD 16, RFC
      1155, May 1990.
 [3]  Rose, M. and K. McCloghrie, "Concise MIB Definitions", STD 16,
      RFC 1212, March 1991.
 [4]  Rose, M., "A Convention for Defining Traps for use with the
      SNMP", RFC 1215, March 1991.
 [5]  McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J., Rose,
      M. and S. Waldbusser, "Structure of Management Information
      Version 2 (SMIv2)", STD 58, RFC 2578, April 1999.
 [6]  McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J., Rose,
      M. and S. Waldbusser, "Textual Conventions for SMIv2", STD 58,
      RFC 2579, April 1999.
 [7]  McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J., Rose,
      M. and S. Waldbusser, "Conformance Statements for SMIv2", STD
      58, RFC 2580, April 1999.
 [8]  Case, J., Fedor, M., Schoffstall, M. and J. Davin, "Simple
      Network Management Protocol", STD 15, RFC 1157, May 1990.
 [9]  Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser,
      "Introduction to Community-based SNMPv2", RFC 1901, January
      1996.
 [10] Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser, "Transport
      Mappings for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol
      (SNMPv2)", RFC 1906, January 1996.
 [11] Case, J., Harrington D., Presuhn R. and B. Wijnen, "Message
      Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management
      Protocol (SNMP)", RFC 2572, April 1999.
 [12] Blumenthal, U. and B. Wijnen, "User-based Security Model (USM)
      for version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol
      (SNMPv3)", RFC 2574, April 1999.

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 [13] Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser, "Protocol
      Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management
      Protocol (SNMPv2)", RFC 1905, January 1996.
 [14] Levi, D., Meyer, P. and B. Stewart, "SNMPv3 Applications", RFC
      2573, April 1999.
 [15] Wijnen, B., Presuhn, R. and K. McCloghrie, "View-based Access
      Control Model (VACM) for the Simple Network Management Protocol
      (SNMP)", RFC 2575, April 1999.
 [16] ITU-T Rec. X.501, "The Directory: Models", 1993.
 [17] Wahl, M., Howes, T. and S. Kille, "Lightweight Directory Access
      Protocol (v3)", RFC 2251, December 1997.
 [18] Young, A., "Connection-less Lightweight X.500 Directory Access
      Protocol", RFC 1798, June 1995.
 [19] Freed N. and Kille, S., "Network Services Monitoring MIB", RFC
      2248, January 1998.
 [20] Grillo, P. and S. Waldbusser, "Host Resources MIB", RFC 1514,
      September 1993.
 [21] Wahl, W., Kille, S. and T. Howes, "Lightweight Directory Access
      Protocol (v3): UTF-8 String Representation of Distinguished
      Names", RFC 2253, December 1997.
 [22] http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/protocol-numbers

Security Considerations

 There are no management objects defined in this MIB that have a MAX-
 ACCESS clause of read-write and/or read-create.  So, if this MIB is
 implemented correctly, then there is no risk that an intruder can
 alter or create any management objects of this MIB via direct SNMP
 SET operations.
 However, the information itself may partly reveal the configuration
 of the directory system and passively increase its vulnerability. The
 information could also be used to analyze network usage and traffic
 patterns.
 Therefore, it may be important in some environments to control read
 access to these objects and possibly to even encrypt the values of
 these object when sending them over the network via SNMP.  Not all
 versions of SNMP provide features for such a secure environment.

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 SNMPv1 by itself is such an insecure environment.  Even if the
 network itself is secure (for example by using IPSec), even then,
 there is no control as to who on the secure network is allowed to
 access and GET (read) the objects in this MIB.
 It is recommended that the implementors consider the security
 features as provided by the SNMPv3 framework.  Specifically, the use
 of the User-based Security Model RFC 2574 [12] and the View-based
 Access Control Model RFC 2575 [15] is recommended.
 It is then a customer/user responsibility to ensure that the SNMP
 entity giving access to an instance of this MIB, is properly
 configured to give access to those objects only to those principals
 (users) that have legitimate rights to access them.

Authors' Addresses

 Glenn Mansfield
 Cyber Solutions Inc.
 6-6-3 Minami Yoshinari
 Aoba-ku, Sendai 989-3204
 Japan
 Phone: +81-22-303-4012
 EMail: glenn@cysols.com
 Steve E. Kille
 MessagingDirect Ltd.
 The Dome, The Square
 Richmond TW9 1DT
 UK
 Phone: +44-181-332-9091
 EMail: Steve.Kille@MessagingDirect.com

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