Network Working Group V. Marinov Internet-Draft J. Schoenwaelder Intended status: Standards Track Jacobs University Bremen Expires: September 27, 2009 March 26, 2009 Mapping Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Notifications to SYSLOG Messages draft-ietf-opsawg-syslog-snmp-02.txt Status of this Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted to IETF in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. This Internet-Draft will expire on September 27, 2009. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2009 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents in effect on the date of publication of this document (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info). Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Abstract This memo defines a mapping from Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) notifications to SYSLOG notifications. Marinov & Schoenwaelder Expires September 27, 2009 [Page 1] Internet-Draft Mapping SNMP Notifications to SYSLOG March 2009 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.1. Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.1. SNMP Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2. SYSLOG Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3. Mapping SNMP Notifications to SYSLOG Notifications . . . . . . 6 3.1. SYSLOG Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.2. Structured Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.3. MSG Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4. Relationship to the SYSLOG-MSG-MIB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 5. Usage Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 8. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 9.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 9.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Marinov & Schoenwaelder Expires September 27, 2009 [Page 2] Internet-Draft Mapping SNMP Notifications to SYSLOG March 2009 1. Introduction SNMP and SYSLOG are two widely used protocols to communicate event notifications. Although co-existence of several management protocols in one operational environment is possible, certain environments require that all event notifications are collected by a single system daemon such as a SYSLOG collector or an SNMP notification receiver via a single management protocol. In such environments, it is necessary to translate event notifications between management protocols. The latest version of SYSLOG, specified in [RFC5424], supports a structured data element format. Structured data elements allow us to map between SNMP notifications and SYSLOG messages without losing information. In this memo we specify a concrete mapping from SNMP event notifications [RFC3416] into SYSLOG messages [RFC5424]. We specify how the SYSLOG message format should be utilized to carry the information contained in an SNMP notification message. A new SYSLOG structured data element is defined which carries the PDU portion of an SNMP notification message. 1.1. Conventions A system which has the capability of receiving SNMP notification messages from an SNMP Notification Originator and sending the SNMP data contained inside in a SYSLOG message format to a SYSLOG receiver is referred in this memo as an "snmp-to-syslog translator". By definition, such a system should have an SNMP Notification Receiver application and a SYSLOG sender application running in order to be able to perform the functions of an "snmp-to-syslog translator". 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 [RFC2119]. 2. Background 2.1. SNMP Notifications A detailed introduction to the SNMP Management Framework can be found in [RFC3410]. The SNMP Management Architecture is described in [RFC3411]. Managed objects are accessed via a virtual information store, termed the Management Information Base or MIB [RFC3418]. Objects in the MIB are defined using the mechanisms defined in the SMI [RFC2578]. An SNMP notification message is generated and transmitted by an SNMP Marinov & Schoenwaelder Expires September 27, 2009 [Page 3] Internet-Draft Mapping SNMP Notifications to SYSLOG March 2009 entity on behalf of a Notification Originator application [RFC3413]. SNMP notifications are often used to notify a Notification Receiver application at a logically remote SNMP entity that an event has occurred or that a certain condition is present. There are two types of SNMP protocol operations that are associated with SNMP notification messages [RFC3416]: o SNMPv2-Trap-PDU, an unconfirmed notification delivery mechanisms o InformRequest-PDU, a confirmed notification delivery mechanism The scopedPDU portion of an SNMPv3 trap or inform message has the following format [RFC3412]: ScopedPDU ::= SEQUENCE { contextEngineID OCTET STRING, contextName OCTET STRING, data ANY -- e.g., PDUs as defined in [RFC3416] } The data member of the SEQUENCE ScopedPDU carries a SNMPv2-Trap-PDU or an InformRequest-PDU. They both have the same structure: PDUs ::= [7] IMPLICIT SEQUENCE { request-id INTEGER, error-status INTEGER, -- ignored in notifications error-index INTEGER, -- ignored in notifications variable-bindings VarBindList } -- variable binding VarBind ::= SEQUENCE { name ObjectName, CHOICE { value ObjectSyntax, unSpecified NULL, -- in retrieval requests -- exceptions in responses noSuchObject [0] IMPLICIT NULL, noSuchInstance [1] IMPLICIT NULL, endOfMibView [2] IMPLICIT NULL } } -- variable-binding list VarBindList ::= SEQUENCE (SIZE (0..max-bindings)) OF VarBind Marinov & Schoenwaelder Expires September 27, 2009 [Page 4] Internet-Draft Mapping SNMP Notifications to SYSLOG March 2009 The first two variable bindings in the variable binding list of an SNMPv2-Trap-PDU or InformRequest-PDU are sysUpTime.0 [RFC3418] and snmpTrapOID.0 [RFC3418] respectively. If the OBJECTS clause is present in the invocation of the corresponding NOTIFICATION-TYPE macro, then each corresponding variable, as instantiated by this notification, is copied, in order, to the variable-bindings field. If any additional variables are being included (at the option of the generating SNMP entity), then each is copied to the variable-bindings field. In the case of SNMPv1 or SNMPv2c notifications, the contextEngineID and the contextName parameters are not present in notification messages. This document assumes that notifications are in the format defined in RFC 3416 [RFC3416]. Notifications in the SNMPv1 notification format must be translated as described in Section 3.1 of RFC 3584 [RFC3584]. 2.2. SYSLOG Notifications The SYSLOG protocol is defined in [RFC5424]. The message contains a global header and a number of structured data elements. The ABNF [RFC4234] representation of a SYSLOG message is defined in RFC XXXX [RFC5424]. The relevant productions for structured data elements are: STRUCTURED-DATA = NILVALUE / 1*SD-ELEMENT SD-ELEMENT = "[" SD-ID *(SP SD-PARAM) "]" SD-PARAM = PARAM-NAME "=" %d34 PARAM-VALUE %d34 SD-ID = SD-NAME PARAM-NAME = SD-NAME PARAM-VALUE = UTF-8-STRING ; characters '"', '\' and ; ']' MUST be escaped. SD-NAME = 1*32PRINTUSASCII ; except '=', SP, ']', %d34 (") UTF-8-STRING = *OCTET ; Any VALID UTF-8 String ; "shortest form" MUST be used OCTET = %d00-255 SP = %d32 PRINTUSASCII = %d33-126 NILVALUE = "-" Marinov & Schoenwaelder Expires September 27, 2009 [Page 5] Internet-Draft Mapping SNMP Notifications to SYSLOG March 2009 3. Mapping SNMP Notifications to SYSLOG Notifications In this section, we define how the scopedPDU portion from a SNMP notification message is used to generate a message in the SYSLOG format. The notification receiver application at the snmp-to-syslog translator is listening for incoming notifications. After a notification is received by the SNMP engine the data portion is forwarded to the notification receiver application. The data portion contains the scopedPDU portion of the message which is used by the SYSLOG sender on the snmp-to-syslog translator to generate a SYSLOG notification and send it to a SYSLOG receiver. A common scenario is the following: +-------------------+ snmp +------------+ | |notification |snmp | +---------+ syslog | +-------------+ |<------------|notification| |syslog |notification| |syslog sender| | |originator | |collector|<-----------| +-------------+ | +------------+ | | | +------------+ | snmp +------------+ | | | |snmp | |notification |snmp | +---------+ | |notification| |<------------|notification| | |receiver | | |originator | | +------------+ | +------------+ | snmp-to-syslog |snmp +------------+ | translator |notification |snmp | | |<------------|notification| +-------------------+ |originator | There can be many SNMP notification originators which send SNMP event notifications to a snmp-to-syslog translator. The snmp-to-syslog translator extracts the data portion of the notification, generates a SYSLOG message, and send the SYSLOG message to a SYSLOG collector, which is responsible for collecting and storing all notification messages. The snmp-to-syslog translator is not transparent for a SYSLOG receiver. The global header of the SYSLOG message generated by the snmp-to-syslog translator is filled with parameters that are specific for the system running the snmp-to-syslog translator such as its hostname, time stamp, etc. The data portion (scopedPDU for SNMPv3 or PDU for SNMPv1/SNMPv2c) of the SNMP notification message is contained in the structured data of the SYSLOG message. Implementations MUST drop invalid SNMP messages before they are passed to the snmp-to-syslog translator. Marinov & Schoenwaelder Expires September 27, 2009 [Page 6] Internet-Draft Mapping SNMP Notifications to SYSLOG March 2009 3.1. SYSLOG Header The snmp-to-syslog translator fills the HEADER field of a SYSLOG message with parameters specific to the system on which it is running. The default facility level for SYSLOG messages containing SNMP notifications should be 3, which corresponds to messages generated by system daemons. The default severity level should be 5, which correponds to "Notice: normal but significant condition". If the snmp-to-syslog translator has a notion of the type of notification that has been received it might choose other values for facility and severity level. The VERSION, TIMESTAMP, HOSTNAME, APP-NAME, PROCID and MSGID fields in the SYSLOG message header are filled with values that are specific to the system on which the snmp-to-syslog translator is running. The character set used in the HEADER MUST be seven-bit ASCII in an eight- bit field as described in [RFC5424]. 3.2. Structured Data The STRUCTURED-DATA field of a SYSLOG message will contain the ScopedPDU (or PDU) portion of the SNMP notification message. For the purpose of carrying SNMP notification data, a new SD-ID element is defined. The ABNF [RFC4234] representation of the new structured element is: SNMP-SD-ELEMENT = "[" SNMP-SD-ID [CTX] *VARBIND "]" SNMP-SD-ID = %x73.6E.6D.70 ; snmp CTX = CTXENGINE CTXNAME CTXENGINE = SP "ctxEngine=" %d34 HEXSTRING %d34 CTXNAME = SP "ctxName=" %d34 PARAM-VALUE %d34 VARBIND = SP VARNAME [SP VARLABEL] SP VARVALUE [SP VALSTRING] VARNAME = %d118 NUM "=" %d34 OID %d34 ; "vN=" VARLABEL = %d108 NUM "=" %d34 PARAM-VALUE %d34 ; "lN=" VARVALUE = VALOID / VALHEXSTRING / VALCOUNTER32 / VALCOUNTER64 / VALUNSIGNED32 / VALINTEGER32 / VALIP / VALNULL / VALOPAQUE / VALTIMETICKS / VALUTF8STRING VALOID = %d111 NUM "=" %d34 OID %d34 ; "oN=" VALHEXSTRING = %d120 NUM "=" %d34 HEXSTRING %d34 ; "xN=" VALCOUNTER32 = %d99 NUM "=" %d34 UNSIGNED32 %d34 ; "cN=" VALCOUNTER64 = %d67 NUM "=" %d34 UNSIGNED64 %d34 ; "CN=" VALUNSIGNED32 = %d117 NUM "=" %d34 UNSIGNED32 %d34 ; "uN=" VALINTEGER32 = %d100 NUM "=" %d34 INTEGER32 %d34 ; "dN=" VALIP = %d105 NUM "=" %d34 IPV4ADDRESS %d34 ; "iN=" VALNULL = %d110 NUM "=" %d34 NULL %d34 ; "nN=" VALOPAQUE = %d112 NUM "=" %d34 HEXSTRING %d34 ; "pN=" VALTIMETICKS = %d116 NUM "=" %d34 UNSIGNED32 %d34 ; "tN=" Marinov & Schoenwaelder Expires September 27, 2009 [Page 7] Internet-Draft Mapping SNMP Notifications to SYSLOG March 2009 VALSTRING = %d97 NUM "=" %d34 PARAM-VALUE %d34 ; "aN=" NUM = NONZERODIGIT 0*DIGIT OID = OIDSTART *("." OIDSUBID) OIDSTART = (("0." / "1.")[%d49-51] DIGIT) / ("2." OIDSUBID) OIDSUBID = ZERO / (NONZERODIGIT *DIGIT) PARAM-VALUE = UTF-8-STRING ; characters '"', '\' and ; ']' MUST be escaped. UTF-8-STRING = *OCTET ; Any VALID UTF-8 String ; "shortest form" MUST be used HEXSTRING = *HEX INTEGER32 = ["-"] NONZERODIGIT 0*DIGIT UNSIGNED32 = NONZERODIGIT 0*DIGIT UNSIGNED64 = NONZERODIGIT 0*DIGIT NULL = "" IPV4ADDRESS = d8 "." d8 "." d8 "." d8 d8 = DIGIT ; 0-9 / %d49-57 DIGIT ; 10-99 / "1" 2DIGIT ; 100-199 / "2" %d48-52 DIGIT ; 200-249 / "25" %d48-53 ; 250-255 HEX = DIGIT / %x41-46 / %x61-66 ; 0-9 / A-F / a-f NONZERODIGIT = %d49-57 ZERO = %d48 DIGIT = ZERO / NONZERODIGIT SP = %d32 Each SNMP-SD-ELEMENT starts with the SD-ID "snmp". The first two SD-ID parameters are "ctxEngine" and "ctxName". They must be present in an SNMPv3 notification and therefore they must be present in a SYSLOG message generated by an snmp-to-syslog translator from an SNMPv3 notification. The contexdEngineID is encoded as as hexadecimal string while the contextName is encoded as a UTF8 string. The remaining parameters in the "snmp" SD-ID correspond to the varbind list elements contained in the SNMP PDU. The name of a varbind is encoded as an OID in dotted notation. The rendered OID is carried in a "vN" parameter, where N identifies the position of the varbind in the varbind list of the SNMP message (the first varbind having the position 1). A MIB aware implementation may in addition generate a parameter "lN" carrying the descriptor of the associated MIB object plus the instance identifier suffix (also called an OID label). The number N again identifies the position of the varbind in the varbind list of the SNMP message. Marinov & Schoenwaelder Expires September 27, 2009 [Page 8] Internet-Draft Mapping SNMP Notifications to SYSLOG March 2009 The value of a varbind is encoded depending on its type according to the rules shown in Table 1 and type specific parameter names are used to convey the type information. The number N again identifies the position of the varbind in the varbind list of the SNMP message. A MIB aware implementation may in addition generate a parameter "aN" carrying a alternate textual representation of the value, which is obtained by applying DISPLAY-HINTs and translating named numbers into corresponding labels or OBJECT IDENTIFIER values to descriptors. For SNMP object types that have a DISPLAY-HINT of the form 'Ma' or 'Mt' where M is some number, a MIB aware implementation can choose to include the "aN" parameter and to suppress the corresponding "xN" parameter. This special case allows to save space for textual objects. A receiver receiving a "aN" parameter without a matching value at position N can unambiguously convert the value carried in the "aN" parameter back to an OCTET STRING value. While the inclusion of additional parameters carrying OID labels or alternate value representations increases human readability, this comes at the cost of increased message size which may cause truncation of SYSLOG message. Therefore, implementations should provide a configuration mechanism to enable/disable the generation of parameters carrying OID labels or alternate value representations. +--------------------+------------+--------------------------+ | SNMP Type | PARAM-NAME | Value Encoding | +--------------------+------------+--------------------------+ | OBJECT IDENTIFIER | oN | dotted-decimal notation | | OCTET STRING | xN | hexadecimal string | | Counter32 | cN | unsigned decimal number | | Counter64 | CN | unsigned decimal number | | Unsigned32 | uN | unsigned decimal number | | INTEGER, Integer32 | dN | signed decimal number | | IpAddress | iN | dotted quad notation | | Opaque | pN | hexadecimal (BER) string | | TimeTicks | tN | unsigned decimal number | | NULL | nN | zero-length string | +--------------------+------------+--------------------------+ Table 1: Mapping of SNMP Types to SD Params The SYSLOG message generated by the snmp-to-syslog translator may include other structured data elements in its structured part in addition to the SNMP-SD-ELEMENT. These structured data elements are included in the SYSLOG message by the SYSLOG sender at the snmp-to- syslog translator and must be compliant to the specification in [RFC5424]. In particular, the parameters in the "origin" SD-ID should identify Marinov & Schoenwaelder Expires September 27, 2009 [Page 9] Internet-Draft Mapping SNMP Notifications to SYSLOG March 2009 the originator of the SNMP notification. A suitable value for the "ip" parameter may be taken from the snmpTrapAddress varbind if present and a suitable value for the "enterpriseId" parameter may be extracted from snmpTrapOID varbind. 3.3. MSG Data The MSG part of the SYSLOG message is optional and may contain a free-form message that provides a textual description of the SNMP event notification. The character set used in MSG SHOULD be UNICODE, encoded using UTF-8 as specified in [RFC3629]. If the sender can not encode the MSG in Unicode, it MAY use any other encoding. 4. Relationship to the SYSLOG-MSG-MIB A companion document defines an SNMP MIB module to represent SYSLOG messages and to send SYSLOG messages as SNMP notifications to SNMP notification receivers [I-D.ietf-opsawg-syslog-msg-mib]. This section discusses the possibilities of using both specifications in combination to create notification "tunnels". A SYSLOG receiver supporting an SNMP notification originator implementing this specification SHOULD translate received SYSLOG messages containing SNMP notifications back into the SNMP notifications. This allows operators to build a forwarding chain where SNMP notifications are "tunneled" through SYSLOG messages. Due to size restrictions of the SYSLOG transports and the more verbose textual encoding used by SYSLOG, there is a possibility that SNMP notification content gets truncated while tunneled through SYSLOG and thus the resulting SNMP notification may be incomplete. 5. Usage Example Here we provide an example how an SNMP linkUp trap message is mapped into a SYSLOG message by using the mappings defined in Section 3.1 and Section 3.2. The linkUp notification is defined in [RFC2863]: Marinov & Schoenwaelder Expires September 27, 2009 [Page 10] Internet-Draft Mapping SNMP Notifications to SYSLOG March 2009 linkUp NOTIFICATION-TYPE OBJECTS { ifIndex, ifAdminStatus, ifOperStatus } STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A linkUp trap signifies that the SNMP entity, acting in an agent role, has detected that the ifOperStatus object for one of its communication links left the down state and transitioned into some other state (but not into the notPresent state). This other state is indicated by the included value of ifOperStatus." ::= { snmpTraps 4 } The scopedPDU portion of an SNMP linkUp trap sent using the SNMPv3 message format is show below (left columns shows the BER encoding while the right column indicates the corresponding ASN.1 definitions): 30:7C SEQUENCE { 04:08:80:00:02:B8:04:61:62:63 800002b804616263 04:04:63:74:78:31 "ctx1" A7:6A SNMPv2-Trap-PDU { 02:03:6D:08:67 INTEGER 7145575 02:01:00 INTEGER 0 02:01:00 INTEGER 0 30:5D SEQUENCE OF { 30:0F SEQUENCE { 06:08:2B:06:01:02:01:01:03:00 sysUpTime.0 43:03:01:72:8C 94860 } 30:17 SEQUENCE { 06:0A:2B:06:01:06:03:01:01:04:01:00 snmpTrapOID.0 06:09:2B:06:01:06:03:01:01:05:04 linkUp } 30:0F SEQUENCE { 06:0A:2B:06:01:02:01:02:02:01:01:03 ifIndex.3 02:01:03 3 } 30:0F SEQUENCE { 06:0A:2B:06:01:02:01:02:02:01:07:03 ifAdminStatus.3 02:01:01 up(1) } 30:0F SEQUENCE { 06:0A:2B:06:01:02:01:02:02:01:08:03 ifOperStatus.3 02:01:01 up(1) } } } } The corresponding SYSLOG message generated by the snmp-to-syslog translator is shown below. (SYSLOG examples should be considered to be on one line. They are wrapped on multiple lines in this document for readability purposes only.) Marinov & Schoenwaelder Expires September 27, 2009 [Page 11] Internet-Draft Mapping SNMP Notifications to SYSLOG March 2009 <29>1 2003-10-11T22:14:15.003Z mymachine.example.com snmptrapd - ID47 [snmp ctxEngine="800002b804616263" ctxName="ctx1" v1="1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0" l1="sysUpTime.0" d1="94860" v2="1.3.6.1.6.3.1.1.4.1.0" l2="snmpTrapOID.0" o2="1.3.6.1.6.3.1.1.5.4" a2="linkUp" v3="1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.1.3" d3="3" v4="1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.7.3" d4="1" a4="up" v5="1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.8.3" d5="1" a5="up"] The corresponding SYSLOG message has a priority value of 29 which means a facility level of 3 (system daemons) and a severity level of 5 (Notice: Normal but significant condition) according to the algorithm for calculation of priority value specified in Section 6.2.1 of [RFC5424]. The rest of the fields in the header of the SYSLOG message are parameters that are specific to the system running the snmp-to-syslog translator. The SYSLOG version is 1 and the message was generated at 22:14:15.003Z on 2003-10-11T by the host "mymachine.example.com". The application on the snmp-to-syslog translator that generated the message was "snmptrapd", there is no information about the process id and the message on the snmp-to- syslog system is identified with the MSGID of ID47. The SYSLOG message contains one structured data element with a SD-ID of "snmp" which means that this is the scopedPDU portion of an SNMP event notification message. The data which is contained in the notification is associated with the ContextEngineID "123456" and ContextName "ctx1". The request-id of the SNMP notification message was "7145575". Then follows the data portion of the scopedPDU. The first two variables contained in the data portion are always the sysUpTime.0 and snmpTrapOID.0. An snmpTrapOID.0 with a value of "1.3.6.1.6.3.1.1.5.4" means that this is a linkUp trap. The parameters v3="1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.1.3" d3="3" mean that the SNMP notification message is carrying the ifIndex object which has a type INTEGER and has a value of 3. The parameters v4="1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.7.3" d4="1" mean that the SNMP notification message is carrying the object ifAdminStatus which has type INTEGER and a value of 1. The parameters v5="1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.8.3" d5="1" mean that the SNMP notification message is carrying the object ifOperStatus which has type INTEGER and a value of "1". 6. IANA Considerations IANA is requested to register the SD-ID value "snmp" together with the PARAM-NAME values specified in Section 3.2 in the registry for SYSLOG structured data id values according to Section 9 in [RFC5424]. The notation indicates a position number. Marinov & Schoenwaelder Expires September 27, 2009 [Page 12] Internet-Draft Mapping SNMP Notifications to SYSLOG March 2009 SD-ID PARAM-NAME snmp OPTIONAL ctxEngine OPTIONAL ctxName OPTIONAL v OPTIONAL l OPTIONAL o OPTIONAL x OPTIONAL c OPTIONAL C OPTIONAL u OPTIONAL d OPTIONAL i OPTIONAL n OPTIONAL p OPTIONAL t OPTIONAL a OPTIONAL 7. Security Considerations The security considerations discussed in [RFC5424] apply to this document. The SNMP architecture supports an access control mechanism ensuring that SNMP notifications are only sent to receivers who are authorized to receive the notification. Users of this mapping of SNMP notifications to SYSLOG messages should enforce a consistent policy preventing people from accessing SNMP notifications via the SYSLOG mapping that would otherwise not be accessible. 8. Acknowledgments The authors wish to thank Martin Bjorklund, Washam Fan, Rainer Gerhards and all other people who commented on various versions of this proposal. 9. References 9.1. Normative References [I-D.ietf-opsawg-syslog-msg-mib] Schoenwaelder, J., Clemm, A., and A. Karmakar, "Definitions of Managed Objects for Mapping SYSLOG Messages to Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Notifications", Internet Draft (work in progress), Marinov & Schoenwaelder Expires September 27, 2009 [Page 13] Internet-Draft Mapping SNMP Notifications to SYSLOG March 2009 March 2009. [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [RFC3411] Harrington, D., Presuhn, R., and B. Wijnen, "An Architecture for Describing Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Management Frameworks", STD 62, RFC 3411, December 2002. [RFC3412] Case, J., Harrington, D., Presuhn, R., and B. Wijnen, "Message Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)", STD 62, RFC 3412, December 2002. [RFC3413] Levi, D., Meyer, P., and B. Stewart, "Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Applications", STD 62, RFC 3413, December 2002. [RFC3416] Presuhn, R., "Version 2 of the Protocol Operations for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)", STD 62, RFC 3416, December 2002. [RFC3418] Presuhn, R., "Management Information Base (MIB) for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)", STD 62, RFC 3418, December 2002. [RFC3584] Frye, R., Levi, D., Routhier, S., and B. Wijnen, "Coexistence between Version 1, Version 2, and Version 3 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework.", BCP 74, RFC 3584, August 2003. [RFC4234] Crocker, D. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF", RFC 4234, October 2005. [RFC5424] Gerhards, R., "The Syslog Protocol", RFC 5424, March 2009. 9.2. Informative References [RFC2578] McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., and J. Schoenwaelder, "Structure of Management Information Version 2 (SMIv2)", RFC 2578, STD 58, April 1999. [RFC2863] McCloghrie, K. and F. Kastenholz, "The Interfaces Group MIB", RFC 2863, June 2000. [RFC3410] Case, J., Mundy, R., Partain, D., and B. Stewart, "Introduction and Applicability Statements for Internet- Marinov & Schoenwaelder Expires September 27, 2009 [Page 14] Internet-Draft Mapping SNMP Notifications to SYSLOG March 2009 Standard Management Framework", RFC 3410, December 2002. [RFC3629] Yergeau, F., "UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646", STD 63, RFC 3629, November 2003. Authors' Addresses Vladislav Marinov Jacobs University Bremen Campus Ring 1 28725 Bremen Germany Email: v.marinov@jacobs-university.de Juergen Schoenwaelder Jacobs University Bremen Campus Ring 1 28725 Bremen Germany Email: j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de Marinov & Schoenwaelder Expires September 27, 2009 [Page 15]