Distinguished Experts Panel: Advanced Services in Converged Networks: Are They Really Manageable? Jeff Case Founder and CTO SNMP Research, Inc. +1 865 573 1434 case@snmp.com

Trend #1: The SNMP-based Management Framework is Evolved and Evolving Not the same old SNMP your mother used in 1988 Many positive advancements already standardized, implemented, and deployed Some more are nearly done and ready for implementation and deployment: SNMP-based configuration Policy-based Management MIB Provisioning MIB for DIFFSERV Some standardization work is just getting started: SMIng Evolution of SNMP: SNMP EOS

Trend #2: The SNMP-based Management Framework is Secure SNMPv3 with security and administration adds: Security, i.e., Authentication and Privacy Authentication Privacy Administration Authorization and view-based access control Logical contexts Naming of entities, identities, and information People and policies Usernames and key management Notification destinations and proxy relationships Source-side notification suppression Remotely configurable via SNMP operations

Trend #3: The SNMP-based Management Framework Is Not Just For Networks The SNMP-based Management Framework can be used as the basis for seamless Internet management: traditional network management system management application management service management proxy management of legacy devices The only relatively complete, open, multi-vendor, multi-platform, interoperable, standards-based management framework for seamless management

Trend #4: The SNMP-based Management Framework is Sturdy Originally “the short-term interim standard” According to the pundits, has been on its last legs since 1988 to be eclipsed by a succession of replacements SNMP-based management is still growing expanding scope evolving While “replacements” come and go

Conclusions: The Internet-Standard Management Framework based on SNMP is Evolved Secure Not just for networks Sturdy But there is much more work to be done Additional standards work Better applications Implementation Deployment

Conclusions: SNMP-based management is far from perfect, but it continues to be the best game in town The architecture and vision are fine We need to execute to completion Standardization work Improvements Read-write and read-create instrumentation for configuration / control / provisioning Implementation Completeness, Correctness, Ease-of-use Applications Deployment -- demand driven