FACT SHEET
IBM Takes Lead in Deliverying SNMPv2 Standards...
and SNMPv2 Security
ComNet '96, Washington, D.C., January 30, 1996...
Taking a leadership position in advancing open standards,
IBM is demonstrating at ComNet '96 the first implementation of the
Simple Network Management Protocol version 2 (SNMPv2) in a major network
management platform.
IBM's SNMPv2 implementation arrives within a month of new standards being
finalized by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).
This leading-edge technology embraces newly standardized functions for
solving two major problems,
identified by customers and industry experts,
in SNMP version 1:
reliable communication between mid-level managers and the central
manager,
and performance during bulk retrieval of management information (MIB)
table data.
Significantly,
IBM's implementation also addresses a third issue with SNMP version 1
identified by customers and industry experts -- security.
Now customers can feel confident that their SNMP messages on the wire
can be protected from modification or disruption.
IBM's Simple, Robust Solution to SNMP Security
IBM's ComNet demonstration will show System View for AIX interoperating
with other SNMPv1- and SNMPv2-compliant implementations,
including Epilogue Technology Corp.'s SNMP agent and beta versions of
IBM's SystemView Agent for OS/2 and SystemView Agent for AIX.
Benefits of IBM's solution for SNMP security include:
- will work with all future standards ensuring customers' investments
are protected
- continues to support SNMP version 1
- intuitive and easy to configure
- is a practical, incremental approach to solving SNMP security based
on the SNMPv2 USEC model, which emphasis the simple in the
Simple Network Management Protocol
- less complexity is required on the agent
- supports the independent, interoperable implementations that are
available today
Availability
IBM SystemView for AIX will ship in 1Q96 with SNMPv2 support, including:
- new WinSNMP API library for performing SNMP communications (which
is based on the platform-independent WINSNMP/Manager API open
specification)
- new SNMPv1/SNMPv2 MIB Browser Application
- new SNMPv1/SNMPv2 MIB Loader Application
- new SystemView for AIX Command Line Interface Application
A technology white paper on IBM's implementation
of SNMPv2 is available upon request.
For more information contact:
John Lucy
IBM Corporation
(919) 254-4486
Kim Dion
Brodur \& Partners (for IBM)
(919) 254-1838
Last modified: Sat Feb 24 10:37:26 PST 1996