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Network Working Group K. White
Request for Comments: 2561 IBM Corp.
Category: Standards Track R. Moore
IBM Corp.
April 1999
Base Definitions of Managed Objects for
TN3270E Using SMIv2
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This memo defines a Management Information Base (MIB) for configuring
and managing TN3270E servers. TN3270E, defined by RFC 2355 [19],
refers to the enhancements made to the Telnet 3270 (TN3270) terminal
emulation practices. Refer to RFC 1041 [18], STD 8, RFC 854 [16],
and STD 31, RFC 860 [17] for a sample of what is meant by TN3270
practices.
The MIB defined by this memo provides generic support for both host
and gateway TN3270E server implementations. A TN3270E server
connects a Telnet client performing 3270 emulation to a target SNA
host over both a client-side network (client to TN3270E server) and
an SNA Network (TN3270E server to target SNA host). The client-side
network is typically TCP/IP, but it need not be.
A host TN3270E server refers to an implementation where the TN3270E
server is collocated with the Systems Network Architecture (SNA)
System Services Control Point (SSCP) for the dependent Secondary
Logical Units (SLUs) that the server makes available to its clients
for connecting into a SNA network. A gateway TN3270E server resides
on an SNA node other than an SSCP, either an SNA type 2.0 node, a
boundary-function-attached type 2.1 node, or an APPN node acting in
the role of a Dependent LU Requester (DLUR). Host and gateway
TN3270E server implementations typically differ greatly as to their
internal implementation and system definition (SYSDEF) methods.
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It is the intent that the MIB defined herein be extended by
subsequent memos. For example, one such extension enables collection
of TN3270E response time data.
Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2.0 The SNMP Network Management Framework . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.0 Structure of the MIB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1 TN3270E Server Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1.1 tn3270eSrvrConfTable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1.2 tn3270eSrvrPortTable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.1.3 tn3270eSrvrStatsTable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.2 TN3270E Server Resource Configuration . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.3 Resource Name / Client Address Mappings . . . . . . . . . 8
3.3.1 tn3270eSnaMapTable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.3.2 tn3270eResMapTable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.3.3 tn3270eTcpConnTable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.4 Advisory Spin Lock Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.5 Row Persistence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.6 IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.0 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.0 Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
6.0 Intellectual Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
7.0 Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
8.0 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
9.0 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
1.0 Introduction
This document is a product of the TN3270E Working Group. Its purpose
is to define a MIB module for support by a TCP/IP implementation for
configuration and management of TN3270E servers.
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119, reference
[22].
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2.0 The SNMP Network Management Framework
The SNMP Management Framework presently consists of five major
components:
o An overall architecture, described in RFC 2271 [1].
o Mechanisms for describing and naming objects and events for the
purpose of management. The first version of this Structure of
Management Information (SMI) is called SMIv1 and described in STD
16, RFC 1155 [2], STD 16, RFC 1212 [3] and RFC 1215 [4]. The
second version, called SMIv2, is described in RFC 1902 [5], RFC
1903 [6] and RFC 1904 [7].
o Message protocols for transferring management information. The
first version of the SNMP message protocol is called SNMPv1 and
described in STD 15, RFC 1157 [8]. A second version of the SNMP
message protocol, which is not an Internet standards track
protocol, is called SNMPv2c and described in RFC 1901 [9] and RFC
1906 [10]. The third version of the message protocol is called
SNMPv3 and described in RFC 1906 [10], RFC 2272 [11] and RFC 2274
[12].
o Protocol operations for accessing management information. The
first set of protocol operations and associated PDU formats is
described in STD 15, RFC 1157 [8]. A second set of protocol
operations and associated PDU formats is described in RFC 1905
[13].
o A set of fundamental applications described in RFC 2273 [14] and
the view-based access control mechanism described in RFC 2275
[15].
Managed objects are accessed via a virtual information store, termed
the Management Information Base or MIB. Objects in the MIB are
defined using the mechanisms defined in the SMI.
This memo specifies a MIB module that is compliant to the SMIv2. A
MIB conforming to the SMIv1 can be produced through the appropriate
translations. The resulting translated MIB must be semantically
equivalent, except where objects or events are omitted because no
translation is possible (use of Counter64). Some machine readable
information in SMIv2 will be converted into textual descriptions in
SMIv1 during the translation process. However, this loss of machine
readable information is not considered to change the semantics of the
MIB.
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3.0 Structure of the MIB
The TN3270E-MIB is split into the following components:
o TN3270E Server Control
o TN3270E Server Resource Configuration
o Resource/Client Address Mappings
There are three additional sections to address:
o Advisory Spin Lock Usage
o Row Persistence
o IANA Considerations
The TN3270E-MIB is defined primarily for TN3270E servers. This memo
does not explicitly address use of the MIB by TN3270 servers that do
not support the TN3270E protocol. Even though a significant number
of the objects in the MIB do apply in the TN3270-only case, the case
was not addressed, since it is unlikely that a TN3270-only server
would implement this MIB.
The SYSAPPL-MIB, reference [24], contains the Utf8String textual
convention (TC) that the TN3270E-MIB imports. This TC, which is used
for some MIB objects containing textual information, enables
internationalization of text strings, whereas the DisplayString TC
does not. The SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB, reference [1], contains the
SnmpAdminString TC that the TN3270E-MIB also imports. Like the
Utf8String TC, this TC also enables internationalization of text
strings; in addition, it provides some guidelines on the length and
content of the strings.
It is important to note that implementation of the SYSAPPL-MIB is not
actually a prerequisite for implementing the TN3270E-MIB. On the
other hand, implementation of the TN3270E-MIB does not preclude
implementing the SYSAPPL-MIB as well. When both MIBs are
implemented, the primary index into most of the TN3270E-MIB tables,
tn3270eSrvrConfIndex, SHOULD equal one of the SYSAPPL-MIB's
sysApplElmtRunIndex values. In this case the entry in the
sysApplElmtRunTable provides additional information on a TN3270E
server.
The MIB defined by this memo supports use of both IPv4 and IPv6
addressing. Two textual conventions, IANATn3270eAddrType and
Tn3270eAddress, are defined for this purpose. IANATn3270eAddress is
essentially equivalent to the TAddress TC, defined by RFC 1903. The
difference between the two is that IANATn3270eAddress allows a zero-
length octet string, while TAddress doesn't. It is important that
IANATn3270eAddress allow for the absence of an address, because some
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objects with this syntax are used as table indexes, and have special
meanings when they contain zero-length strings.
The IANATn3270eAddrType textual convention is used rather than the
TDomain TC (defined by RFC 1903) for identifying the contents of a
tn3270eTAddress object. TDomain uses an OID to characterize the
contents of an associated TAddress object. IANATn3270eAddrType was
chosen over TDomain because, with a SYNTAX of Unsigned32 (enumeration
type), it is much simpler to use as a component in an instance
identifier. It was placed in the IANA-administered module to allow
for the addition of values to cover cases (such as proxy servers) not
covered by the TN3270E-MIB itself.
3.1 TN3270E Server Control
This group of objects provides for TN3270E server configuration and
control. It consists of three tables:
o tn3270eSrvrConfTable
o tn3270eSrvrPortTable
o tn3270eSrvrStatsTable
The tn3270eSrvrConfTable is the primary table within the entire
TN3270E-MIB. As section 3.1.1 indicates, each TN3270E server is
represented by an entry in this table, indexed by
tn3270eSrvrConfIndex. Most of the other tables defined by the
TN3270E-MIB have tn3270eSrvrConfIndex as their primary index.
Entries in these tables MUST NOT exist for a TN3270E server when it
does not have a tn3270eSrvrConfigEntry.
3.1.1 tn3270eSrvrConfTable
The tn3270eSrvrConfTable contains a set of objects primarily used for
configuring and managing TN3270E servers. As with most of the other
tables in the TN3270E-MIB, this table is indexed by an unsigned
integer, tn3270eSrvrConfIndex. This primary index element enables
support of multiple TN3270E servers by a single SNMP agent. Within
the set of MIB objects returned by one SNMP agent,
tn3270eSrvrConfIndex values MUST be unique, and need not be
contiguous.
The tn3270eSrvrConfInactivityTimer object defines the inactivity
period for user traffic on TN3270 and TN3270E sessions.
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The four objects:
o tn3270eSrvrConfConnectivityChk
o tn3270eSrvrConfTmNopInterval
o tn3270eSrvrConfTmNopInactTime
o tn3270eSrvrConfTmTimeout
define the parameters for performing the "Telnet Timing Mark Option"
as defined by RFC 860 [17]. The object
tn3270eSrvrConfConnectivityChk allows a Management Station to select
either a NOP command or a TIMING-MARK command. Sending a NOP command
results in less overhead then a TIMING-MARK command, since a client
doesn't send a reply.
The objects tn3270eSrvrConfAdminStatus and tn3270eSrvrConfOperStatus
enable remote starting and stopping of a TN3270E server, and report
the current state of the server. The object
tn3270eSrvrConfFunctionsSupported indicates which of the TN3270 and
TN3270E options a server supports. The object
tn3270eSrvrConfSessionTermState defines as a TN3270E server-wide
option what SHOULD occur when the SNA portion of a TN3270 or TN3270E
session terminates with respect to the associated TCP connection.
The object tn3270eSrvrConfSrvrType indicates whether the TN3270E
server represented by a tn3270eSrvrConfEntry is a host or a gateway
server. The object tn3270eSrvrConfContact provides a scratch pad
area for a TN3270E server administrator to store information for
later retrieval. The object tn3270eSrvrConfLastActTime reports the
DateAndTime when the server was most recently activated. The special
value of all '00'Hs indicates that the server has never been active.
The object tn3270eSrvrConfRowStatus provides the capability to
perform row creation and deletion operations on this table.
3.1.2 tn3270eSrvrPortTable
The tn3270eSrvrPortTable represents the local TCP ports associated
with a TN3270E server. This information is important because some
TN3270E server implementations support usage of multiple local ports.
A tn3270eSrvrPortEntry is indexed by:
o tn3270eSrvrConfIndex
o tn3270eSrvrConfPort
o tn3270eSrvrConfPortAddrType
o tn3270eSrvrConfPortAddress
Certain TN3270E server implementations restrict a local TCP port to a
particular local IP address, instead of allowing connections for any
local IP address to occur via the port. tn3270eSrvrConfPortAddrType
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and tn3270eSrvrConfPortAddress allow this restriction to be
represented in the MIB. A TN3270E server that doesn't restrict
connections over a port to a local IP Address SHALL use the value
unknown(0) for tn3270eSrvrConfPortAddrType, and a zero-length octet
string for tn3270eSrvrConfPortAddress.
3.1.3 tn3270eSrvrStatsTable
The tn3270eSrvrStatsTable defines a series of objects that provide
general usage statistics for a TN3270E server. An entry can
represent the total activity for a server, or it can represent the
activity occurring at the server on either a port or a port-and-
local-address basis.
An implementation of this table MUST use only one of the three levels
of refinement that the indexing of this table supports for the
entries associated with a single TN3270E server.
The objects in this table reporting maximum, in-use, and spare LUs
for terminals and printers presuppose an implementation where
terminal resources and printer resources come from disjoint,
dedicated pools. An implementation where resources for the two types
of LUs come from a single shared pool should return the following
values:
o maximum: maximum size of the shared pool
o in-use: number currently in use as this type of LU
o spare: maximum - (terminal in-use + printer in-use)
3.2 TN3270E Server Resource Configuration
The following three tables provide for configuration of resources at
a TN3270E server:
o tn3270eClientGroupTable
o tn3270eResPoolTable
o tn3270eClientResMapTable
tn3270eClientGroupTable and tn3270eResPoolTable enable
implementations to define groupings of both client addresses and
resource pools for mapping client addresses to resources. The
tn3270eClientResMapTable provides a mapping from a client group to a
resource pool.
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3.3 Resource Name / Client Address Mappings
The TN3270E-MIB contains three tables for mapping resource names to
client addresses, and client addresses to resource names:
o tn3270eSnaMapTable
o tn3270eResMapTable
o tn3270eTcpConnTable
3.3.1 tn3270eSnaMapTable
The tn3270eSnaMapTable is a read-only table that maps a secondary
LU's SNA network name to the name by which it is known locally at the
TN3270E server. For correlation with data from the SNA network, the
name of the associated primary LU also appears in a
tn3270eSnaMapEntry. An entry in this table is created when the
Activate LU (ACTLU) request carrying the SNA network name of the SLU
is received from the SSCP. The entry is deleted when the SLU is
deactivated.
A TN3270E server provides a client with access to an SNA application
by associating a TCP connection from the client with an SNA secondary
LU (SLU) at the server. This SLU in turn has an SNA session with a
primary LU (PLU) running on an SNA host. This PLU represents the
application with which the client is communicating. The TN3270E-MIB
includes two tables for mapping back and forth among the SNA name
identifying the PLU, the SNA name identifying the SLU, and the TCP
connection with the client.
In order to understand how these name mappings work, it is necessary
to understand a subtlety involving the names of the SLUs at the
TN3270E server: these names are often different from the names by
which the SLUs are known in the rest of the SNA network. In the
TN3270E-MIB, these two types of SLU names are termed "local names"
and "SSCP-supplied names"; the latter term indicates that the name by
which the SLU is known in the SNA network comes to the TN3270E server
from the SNA System Services Control Point.
SSCPs don't always send SLU names down to secondary LUs; in some
cases this capability must be turned on. In the case of SLUs served
by a Dependent LU Requester (DLUR), an SSCP always sends SLU names to
the DLUR. It is necessary, however, to enable the DLUR's PU/LU
Network Name Forwarding function, so that it forwards the SLU names
it receives from the SSCP down to the PUs that it serves.
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For SLUs associated with an SNA type 2.0 node (or with a boundary-
function-attached type 2.1 node) not served by a DLUR, inclusion of
SLU names on ACTLU must be enabled explicitly at the SSCP via local
configuration.
3.3.2 tn3270eResMapTable
The tn3270eResMapTable is a read-only table that maps a resource name
to a client's address. An entry in this table is created when a TCP
connection is received by a TN3270E server and mapped to a resource.
The entry is deleted when the resource-to-address association is no
longer valid.
3.3.3 tn3270eTcpConnTable
The TCP Connection Table is currently defined by RFC 2012 (Refer to
reference [20], TCP-MIB Definitions). It contains the following
objects:
o tcpConnState (INTEGER)
o tcpConnLocalAddress (IpAddress)
o tcpConnLocalPort (INTEGER)
o tcpConnRemAddress (IpAddress)
o tcpConnRemPort (INTEGER)
It is indexed by: tcpConnLocalAddress, tcpConnLocalPort,
tcpConnRemAddress, and tcpConnRemPort.
The tn3270eTcpConnTable contains objects for keeping a list of the
current set of TN3270 and TN3270E sessions at a TN3270E server. The
relationship between the tcpConnTable and the Tn3270eTcpConnTable is
not one-to-one, since the tn3270eTcpConnTable contains information
pertaining only to TN3270(E) sessions.
The tn3270eTcpConnTable has a different indexing structure from that
of the tcpConnTable. Instead of using IpAddress objects,
Tn3270eAddress and IANATn3270eAddrType object pairs are used to
specify client addresses (both local and remote). This enables
support of IPv6 addresses. In addition, the remote address pair
precedes the local address pair in the index clause, in order to
enable a GET-NEXT operation using only the remote address pair.
3.4 Advisory Spin Lock Usage
Within the TN3270E-MIB, tn3270eConfSpinLock is defined as an advisory
lock that allows cooperating TN3270E-MIB applications to coordinate
their use of the tn3270eSrvrConfTable, the tn3270eSrvrPortTable, the
tn3270eClientGroupTable, the tn3270eResPoolTable, and the
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tn3270eClientResMapTable. When creating a new entry or altering an
existing entry in any of these tables, an application SHOULD make use
of tn3270eConfSpinLock to serialize application changes or additions.
Since this is an advisory lock, its use by management applications
SHALL NOT be enforced by agents. Agents MUST, however, implement the
tn3270eConfSpinLock object.
3.5 Row Persistence
The following tables enable remote creation of their entries by
including RowStatus objects:
o tn3270eSrvrConfTable
o tn3270eSrvrPortTable
o tn3270eClientGroupTable
o tn3270eResPoolTable
o tn3270eClientResMapTable
An implementation SHOULD NOT retain SNMP-created entries in these
tables across reIPLs (Initial Program Loads) of the corresponding
TN3270E server, since management applications need to see consistent
behavior with respect to the persistence of the table entries that
they create.
It is expected that local, implementation-dependent configuration
information will be used to define the initial and persistent
configurations for TN3270E server usage. Thus it is not necessary to
enable persistence of table entries by adding StorageType (refer to
RFC 1903 [6]) objects to these tables.
3.6 IANA Considerations
The tn3270eSrvrFunctionsSupported, tn3270eTcpConnFunctions,
tn3270eTcpConnClientIdFormat, and tn3270eTcpConnLogInfo objects, as
well as a number of objects identifying various address types,
resource types, and device types, use textual conventions imported
from the IANATn3270eTC-MIB. The purpose of defining these textual
conventions in a separate MIB module is to allow additional values to
be defined without having to issue a new version of this document.
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is responsible for the
assignment of all Internet numbers, including various SNMP-related
numbers; it will administer the values associated with these textual
conventions.
The rules for additions or changes to the IANATn3270eTC-MIB are
outlined in the DESCRIPTION clause associated with its MODULE-
IDENTITY statement.
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The current version of the IANATn3270eTC-MIB can be accessed from the
IANA home page at: "http://www.iana.org/".
4.0 Definitions
TN3270E-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN
IMPORTS
MODULE-IDENTITY, OBJECT-TYPE, Unsigned32, TimeTicks,
IpAddress, Counter32, Gauge32, Counter64
FROM SNMPv2-SMI
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION, RowStatus, TestAndIncr, DateAndTime,
TimeStamp
FROM SNMPv2-TC
MODULE-COMPLIANCE, OBJECT-GROUP
FROM SNMPv2-CONF
snanauMIB
FROM SNA-NAU-MIB
Utf8String
FROM SYSAPPL-MIB
SnmpAdminString
FROM SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB
IANATn3270eAddrType, IANATn3270eAddress,
IANATn3270eClientType, IANATn3270Functions,
IANATn3270ResourceType, IANATn3270DeviceType,
IANATn3270eLogData
FROM IANATn3270eTC-MIB;
tn3270eMIB MODULE-IDENTITY
LAST-UPDATED "9807270000Z" -- July 27, 1998
ORGANIZATION "TN3270E Working Group"
CONTACT-INFO
"Kenneth White (kennethw@vnet.ibm.com)
IBM Corp. - Dept. BRQA/Bldg. 501/G114
P.O. Box 12195
3039 Cornwallis
RTP, NC 27709-2195
USA
Robert Moore (remoore@us.ibm.com)
IBM Corp. - Dept. BRQA/Bldg. 501/G114
P.O. Box 12195
3039 Cornwallis
RTP, NC 27709-2195
USA
+1-919-254-4436"
DESCRIPTION
"This module defines a portion of the management
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information base (MIB) for managing TN3270E servers."
REVISION "9807270000Z" -- July 27, 1998
DESCRIPTION
"RFC nnnn (Proposed Standard)" -- RFC Editor to fill in
::= { snanauMIB 8 }
-- Textual Conventions
SnaResourceName ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The textual convention for defining an SNA resource
name. A fully qualified SNA resource name, consisting
of a 1 to 8 character network identifier (NetId), a
period ('.'), and a 1 to 8 character resource name
(ResName).
The NetId and ResName are constructed from the
uppercase letters 'A' - 'Z' and the numerics '0' - '9',
all encoded in ASCII, with the restriction that the
first character of each must be a letter. Blanks are
not allowed.
Earlier versions of SNA permitted three additional
characters in NetIds and ResNames: '#', '@', and '