Requirements

Define XML Schemas for SNMP message format, including Trap, Get, GetNext, and MetaDataQuery
Define SNMP specific WSDL extensions
SNMP BC should support device learning Performance Management(PM) and MOF
Support "in-only" MEP for incoming traps, and "request-reply" MEP for MetaDataQuery and GET requests
Engine should process high volumn of incoming Traps through use of buffering, batching
Hookup to CAM specific monitoring MBeans
Extend runtime configuration MBeans for SNMP Engine parameters, such as batch size, wait-time, etc
Throttling of incoming Traps to avoid overloading Processor Engines
MetaData cache expiration
Should actively monitor variables up to 100,000 network elements using SNMP GET
Receive SNMP TRAP, INFORM, should be able to receive these traps at very high burst rates, buffer them and deliver them for processing
Dynamic configuration: addition / changes in the configuration of what to monitor without redeploying
Dynamic addition of Processing Engines

SNMPv1

Get, GetNext, or Set, TRAP

SNMPv2

Get, Get Next, Set Request, Get Response, Notifications (TRAP), GETBULK, INFORM
Support security in SNMPv2.

SNMPv3

Support for SNMP operations such as Inform, Set, GetBulk, Walk, etc
Security and Remote Configuration
Message integrity to ensure that a packet has not been tampered with in transit
Authentication to verify that the message is from a valid source
Encryption of packets to prevent snooping by an unauthorized source
Monitoring device uptimes (sysUpTimeInstance)
Inventory of OS versions (sysDescr)
Collect interface information (ifName, ifDescr, ifSpeed, ifType, ifPhysAddr)
Measuring network interface throughput (ifInOctets, ifOutOctets)
Querying a remote ARP cache (ipNetToMedia)

General Requirements

Need to account for Index shifting behaviour (Need to see how we can handle Index Shifting)
Demonstrate the ability to receive multiple SNMP traps and transform these to alarms that are written to the alarm output file
Can we have a Wizard to create device views? (Using Discovery protocol)
Provision to log traps
Do we need to support syslog?
Generic way of handling SNMP extensions
Any additional data added to the trap must not be discarded
Querying specific agents to ensure they are still functioning

This page (revision-7) was last changed on 04-Jul-07 03:50 AM, -0700 by pedapudi.
This page was created on 04-Jul-07 03:40 AM, -0700 by pedapudi.

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