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Network Working Group                                            D. Levi
Request for Comments: 3231                               Nortel Networks
Obsoletes: 2591                                         J. Schoenwaelder
Category: Standards Track                                TU Braunschweig
                                                            January 2002


                   Definitions of Managed Objects for
                    Scheduling Management Operations

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 (2002).  All Rights Reserved.


Abstract

   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 a set of managed objects that are used to
   schedule management operations periodically or at specified dates and
   times.

   This document obsoletes RFC 2591.

Table of Contents

   1 Introduction .................................................    2
   2 The SNMP Management Framework ................................    2
   3 Overview .....................................................    3
   3.1 Periodic Schedules .........................................    4
   3.2 Calendar Schedules .........................................    4
   3.3 One-shot Schedules .........................................    5
   3.4 Time Transitions ...........................................    5
   3.5 Actions ....................................................    5
   4 Definitions ..................................................    6
   5 Usage Examples ...............................................   20
   5.1 Starting a script to ping devices every 20 minutes .........   20
   5.2 Starting a script at the next Friday the 13th ..............   21
   5.3 Turning an interface off during weekends ...................   22



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   6 Security Considerations ......................................   23
   7 Intellectual Property ........................................   25
   8 Changes from RFC 2591 ........................................   25
   9 Acknowledgments ..............................................   26
   10 References ..................................................   26
   11 Editors' Addresses ..........................................   28
   12 Full Copyright Statement ....................................   29

1.  Introduction

   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 a set of managed objects that are used to
   schedule management operations periodically or at specified dates and
   times.

   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 [RFC2119].

2.  The SNMP Management Framework

   The SNMP Management Framework presently consists of five major
   components:

   o  An overall architecture, described in RFC 2571 [RFC2571].

   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 [RFC1155], STD 16, RFC 1212 [RFC1212] and RFC 1215
      [RFC1215].  The second version, called SMIv2, is described in STD
      58, RFC 2578 [RFC2578], STD 58, RFC 2579 [RFC2579] and STD 58, RFC
      2580 [RFC2580].

   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 [RFC1157].  A second version of the
      SNMP message protocol, which is not an Internet standards track
      protocol, is called SNMPv2c and described in RFC 1901 [RFC1901]
      and RFC 1906 [RFC1906].  The third version of the message protocol
      is called SNMPv3 and described in RFC 1906 [RFC1906], RFC 2572
      [RFC2572] and RFC 2574 [RFC2574].








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   o  Protocol operations for accessing management information.  The
      first set of protocol operations and associated PDU formats is
      described in STD 15, RFC 1157 [RFC1157].  A second set of protocol
      operations and associated PDU formats is described in RFC 1905
      [RFC1905].

   o  A set of fundamental applications described in RFC 2573 [RFC2573]
      and the view-based access control mechanism described in RFC 2575
      [RFC2575].

   A more detailed introduction to the current SNMP Management Framework
   can be found in RFC 2570 [RFC2570].

   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.

3.  Overview

   The MIB defined in this memo provides the scheduling of actions
   periodically or at specified dates and times.  The actions can be
   used to realize on-duty / off-duty schedules or to trigger management
   functions in a distributed management application.

   Schedules can be enabled or disabled by modifying a control object.
   This allows for pre-configured schedules which are activated or
   deactivated by some other management functions.

   The term `scheduler' is used throughout this memo to refer to the
   entity which implements the scheduling MIB and which invokes the
   actions at the specified points in time.










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3.1.  Periodic Schedules

   Periodic schedules are based on fixed time periods between the
   initiation of scheduled actions.  Periodic schedules are defined by
   specifying the number of seconds between two initiations.  The time
   needed to complete the action is usually not known by the scheduler
   and does therefore not influence the next scheduling point.

   Implementations must guarantee that action invocations will not occur
   before their next scheduled time.  However, implementations may be
   forced to delay invocations in the face of local constraints (e.g., a
   heavy load on higher-priority tasks).  An accumulation of such delays
   would result in a drift of the scheduling interval with respect to
   time, and should be avoided.

   Scheduled actions collecting statistical data should retrieve time
   stamps from the data source and not rely on the accuracy of the
   periodic scheduler in order to obtain accurate statistics.

3.2.  Calendar Schedules

   Calendar schedules trigger scheduled actions at specified days of the
   week and days of the month.  Calendar schedules are therefore aware
   of the notion of months, days, weekdays, hours and minutes.

   It is possible to specify multiple values for each calendar item.
   This provides a mechanism for defining complex schedules.  For
   example, a schedule could be defined which triggers an action every
   15 minutes on a given weekday.

   Months, days and weekdays are specified using the objects schedMonth,
   schedDay and schedWeekDay of type BITS.  Setting multiple bits to one
   in these objects causes an OR operation.  For example, setting the
   bits monday(1) and friday(5) in schedWeekDay restricts the schedule
   to Mondays and Fridays.

   The bit fields for schedMonth, schedDay and schedWeekDay are combined
   using an AND operation.  For example, setting the bits june(5) and
   july(6) in schedMonth and combining it with the bits monday(1) and
   friday(5) set in schedWeekDay will result in a schedule which is
   restricted to every Monday and Friday in the months June and July.
   Wildcarding of calendar items is achieved by setting all bits to one.

   It is possible to define calendar schedules that will never trigger
   an action.  For example, one can define a calendar schedule which
   should trigger an action on February 31st.  Schedules like this will
   simply be ignored by the scheduler.




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   Finally, calendar schedules are always expressed in local time.  A
   scalar, schedLocalTime, is provided so that a manager can retrieve
   the notion of local time and the offset to GMT time.

3.3.  One-shot Schedules

   One-shot Schedules are similar to calendar schedules.  The difference
   between a calendar schedule and a one-shot schedule is that a one-
   shot schedule will automatically disable itself once an action has
   been invoked.

3.4.  Time Transitions

   A time transition occurs when the Schedule MIB's notion of time (as
   reported by schedLocalTime) is changed so that time continuity is
   lost.  Time transitions may be caused by daylight savings times or
   administrative changes of the system's notion of time.

   There are two possible situations when a time transition occurs.

   First, time may be set backwards, in which case particular times will
   appear to occur twice.  These are called 'ambiguous times'.  Second,
   time may be set forwards, in which case particular times will not
   occur.  These are called 'nonexistent times'.

   When an action is configured in the Schedule MIB to occur at an
   ambiguous time, the action will be invoked at all occurrences of the
   ambiguous time.  For example, if an action is scheduled to occur at
   2:10 am, and a time transition occurs at 3:00 am which sets the clock
   back to 2:00 am, the action will be invoked twice.

   When an action is configured in the Schedule MIB to occur at a
   nonexistent time, the action will not be invoked at all.  For
   example, if an action is scheduled to occur at 2:10 am, and a time
   transition occurs at 2:00 am which sets the clock to 3:00 am, the
   action will not be invoked.

3.5.  Actions

   Scheduled actions are modeled by SNMP set operations on local MIB
   variables.  Scheduled actions described in this MIB are further
   restricted to objects of type INTEGER.  This restriction does not
   limit the usefulness of the MIB.  Simple schedules such as on-duty /
   off-duty schedules for resources that have a status MIB object (e.g.
   ifAdminStatus) are possible.






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   More complex actions can be realized by triggering a management
   script which is responsible for performing complex state transitions.
   A management script can also be used to perform SNMP set operations
   on remote SNMP engines.

4.  Definitions

   DISMAN-SCHEDULE-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN

   IMPORTS
       MODULE-IDENTITY, OBJECT-TYPE, NOTIFICATION-TYPE,
       Integer32, Unsigned32, Counter32, mib-2, zeroDotZero
           FROM SNMPv2-SMI

       TEXTUAL-CONVENTION,
       DateAndTime, RowStatus, StorageType, VariablePointer
           FROM SNMPv2-TC

       MODULE-COMPLIANCE, OBJECT-GROUP, NOTIFICATION-GROUP
           FROM SNMPv2-CONF

       SnmpAdminString
           FROM SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB;

   schedMIB MODULE-IDENTITY
       LAST-UPDATED "200201070000Z"
       ORGANIZATION "IETF Distributed Management Working Group"
       CONTACT-INFO
           "WG EMail:  [e-mail]
            Subscribe: [e-mail]

            Chair:     Randy Presuhn
                       BMC Software, Inc.
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