The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft Entity MIB (Version 2) <draft-ietf-entmib-v2-06.txt> as a Proposed Standard. This document is the product of the Entity MIB Working Group. This document obsoletes RFC 2037. The IESG contact persons are Bert Wijnen and Randy Bush. Technical Summary This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB) for use with network management protocols in the Internet community. In particular, it describes managed objects used for managing multiple logical and physical entities managed by a single SNMP agent. This document obsoletes RFC 2037. Working Group Summary The working group made chnages to this MIB to align it with SNMPv3. They have also addressed some requirements that emerged since punblication of RFC 2037 and some that emerged based on implementation experience. The WG further addressed the requirment to allow for international strings for those strings that are meant for humans. Protocol Quality This document was reviewed for the IESG by Bert Wijnen. Note to RFC Editor: The IESG requests that the Change log section (5.14) be replaced with the following text: 5.14. Changes Since RFC 2037 5.14.1. Textual Conventions The PhysicalClass TC text has been clarified, and a new enumeration to support 'stackable' components has been added. The SnmpEngineIdOrNone TC has been added to support SNMPv3. 5.14.2. New entPhysicalTable Objects The entPhysicalHardwareRev, entPhysicalFirmwareRev, and entPhysicalSoftwareRev objects have been added for revision identification. The entPhysicalSerialNum, entPhysicalMfgName, entPhysicalModelName, and entPhysicalIsFru objects have been added for better vendor identification for physical components. The entPhysicalSerialNum object can be set by a management station in the event the agent cannot identify this information. The entPhysicalAlias and entPhysicalAssetID objects have been added for better user component identification. These objects are intended to be set by a management station and preserved by the agent across restarts. 5.14.3. New entLogicalTable Objects The entLogicalContextEngineID and entLogicalContextName objects have been added to provide an SNMP context for SNMPv3 access on behalf of a logical entity. 5.14.4. Bugfixes A bug was fixed in the entLogicalCommunity object. The subrange was incorrect (1..255) and is now (0..255). The description clause has also been clarified. This object is now deprecated. The entLastChangeTime object description has been changed to generalize the events which cause an update to the last change timestamp. The syntax was changed from DisplayString to SnmpAdminString for the entPhysicalDescr, entPhysicalName, and entLogicalDescr objects.
