RE: DHCP Option for SNMP Notifications

["Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>]

Seems pretty IPv4 specific. Can there be IPv6 addresses?

How ould the agent know security parameters and SNMP version
to use and such?

I assume you would want the paramters to fit into the
SNMP architecure (as per RFC2571), and the trap (or
better) notification destinations (and other parameters)
to be mappable inot the MIBs in RFC2573, 2574 and 2575?

Thanks,
Bert 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Bakke [mailto:mbakke@cisco.com]
> Sent: woensdag 11 september 2002 18:23
> To: dhcwg@ietf.org; mibs@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: DHCP Option for SNMP Notifications
> 
> 
> Hi-
> 
> I needed a method to configure a list of SNMP notification (AKA trap)
> hosts for use by diskless workstations booting from a network device.
> Since none of the usual SNMP configuration information is available
> at this time, I would like to use a DHCP option to provide a list of
> IP addresses to which to send notifications when, for 
> instance, booting
> from a network device fails for some reason.  This could also be used
> to centrally configure the list of SNMP notification hosts, 
> rather than
> setting them individually on each machine.
> 
> Anyway, I've submitted a short draft describing the proposed option
> as draft-bakke-dhc-snmp-trap-00.txt.  I'll forward the message to
> these two groups when the draft is published.  In the mean time, it
> is available at:
> 
> ftp://ftpeng.cisco.com/mbakke/ips/dhcp/draft-bakke-dhc-snmp-tr
ap-00.txt

I'm guessing that these two mailing lists (dhcwg and mibs) are the
correct places to discuss this (please let me know if there's a more
appropriate list).

Regards,

Mark A. Bakke
Cisco Systems
mbakke@cisco.com
763.398.1054