CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Michael Erlinger/Micro Technology RLANMIB Minutes This was the first meeting of this Working Group. The activities centered on getting to know one another and brainstorming on the concept of remote LAN monitoring and associated problems. The following lists some of the major discussion topics: o The features of two monitoring boxes, HP LAN Probe and Novell LANtern, were presented by members of the audience as representative of the marketplace. o The concepts of LAN monitoring and packet capture with packet analysis (e.g., SNIFFER) were discussed. Packet capture and analysis by remote LAN probes seemed to stretch the data transfer capabilities of SNMP. o The concept of filtering was discussed in great detail. In particular, the approaches to filtering by various manufacturers and the different approaches to combining filters and traps. o Relationships to other IETF Working Groups were discussed and the need for close interaction was noted by all. o Finally, there was much discussion about remote LAN monitoring and SNMP. In particular: do smart agents violate the spirit of SNMP? How does a large amount of agent-captured data move to an NMS? and how can various probes and NMSs be synchronized within a particular LAN? There was no attempt to reach any consensus on these issues, but the group did come up with the following action items: 1. The list of attendees would be sent to rlanmib-request for addition to the mailing list. Done. 2. The group would like to change its name to the Remote LAN Management Working Group and make appropriate charter changes. Mike Erlinger took on this assignment. 3. Steve Waldbusser will attempt to generate a review document on the various network probes. He will try to discern the common features of these devices. 4. Mike Erlinger will attempt to generate a review document on the concept of filters as they apply to remote probes/agents. Attendees Scott Bradner sob@harvard.harvard.edu Phil Budne phil@shiva.com Martin Dubetz dubetz@wugate.wustl.edu 1 Mike Erlinger mike@mti.com Michael Fidler ts0026@ohstvma.ircc.ohio-state.edu Olafur Gundmundsson ogud@cs.umd.edu Ken Jones uunet!konkord!ksj Kathy Kerby kkerby@bbn.com Jim Kinder jdk@fibercom.com Paul Langille quiver::langille@decwrl.dec.com Cyndi Mills cmills@bbn.com Robert Morgan morgan@jessica.stanford.edu Robert Pinna bwp!hpctlb.hp.com K.K. Ramakrishnan rama%erlang.dec.com@decwrl.dec.com Marshall Rose mrose@psi.com Glenn Trewitt trewitt@nsl.dec.com Sudhanshu Verma verma@hpindbu.cup.hp.com Mark Wood mark1@iw/cs.att.com 2