In the name of God

Network Management
CMIS/CMIP

Pejman Khadivi
Assistant Professor
ECE Department
Isfahan University of Technology
pkhadivi@ec.iut.ac.ir
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CMIS/CMIP
Based on OSI

CMIS
Common Management Information
Service

CMIP
Common Management Information
Protocol
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CMIS/CMIP

Complete Net Management Protocol

Suite for all Network Devices

CMIS specifies the services provided

Services are general

CMIP specifies the PDU format

CMIS/CMIP

CMIS/CMIP is a Vehicle for

Conveying:
Operations on Managed Objects
Notifications from Managed Objects
Results of Operations
Results of Notifications
Errors

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CMIS/CMIP
Based on Principles of OSI
CMIS and CMIP were designed to be
omnipotent
Covering all possible management
needs

Lead into their becoming so heavy

that they have not gained wide
acceptance
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Requires full implementation of OSI

layers

CMIS/CMIP Architecture
System-management application-service element
(SMASE)
A-Associate A-Release M-EVENT-REPORT M-GET M-SET M-ACTION
A-Abort M-CREATE M-DELETE M-CALCEL-GET

Common management information service element

(CMISE)
A-Associate A-Release RO-Invoke RO-Reject RO-Result RO-Error
A-Abort

Association-control-service Remote-operations-service
element (ACSE) element (ROSE)

P-Connect P-Release P-Abort P-Data

Presentation service
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CMISE

Common Management Information

Service Element

Fundamental Function
Exchange of management information
between two manager & agent entities

Features of CMIS
Services based on simple
Request/Response approach
Association Services
Operation Services
Notification Services

Scoping

Linked Replies
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Association Services
Provided by ACSE
Used to negotiate Functional Units and Protocol Versions

A-Associate
Establishes a management association

A-Release
Terminates a management association (in an orderly
manner)

A-Abort
Terminates a management association (in an abrupt
manner)

Operation Services
M-GET
Used to retrieve the values of one or
more attributes of one or more MOs

M-SET
Used to replace the values of one or
more attributes of one or more MOs

M-ACTION
A CMISE-Service User instructs a peer
CSMIE Service User to Perform an 10

Action

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Operation Services
M-CANCEL-GET
Permits a linked GET response to be
terminated

M-CREATE
Permits creation of new instances of
object classes
Permits specification of default values (of
attributes, explicitly and/or by reference)

M-DELETE
Permits deletion of object class 11

instances

Notification Service

M-EVENT-REPORT
Conveys Object Class/Instance, Event
Type and optional event-specific
information
Meaning dependent on MO notification
specification

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Management Association

Connection between Peers

Event
M-Event-Reports
Event/Monitor
M-Event-Report and M-Get
Monitor/Control
No Event Allowed
Full Manager-Agent 13

Scoping and Filtering

Scoping
Selects objects to be operated upon

Filtering
Permits objects within scope to be
selected according to test criteria
Permits Testing of Attribute Values for =,
>=, <= and Substring values
Tests may be combined using Logical
operators

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Linked Replies

Permits Multiple Responses to a

Single operation request

Applicable only if Scoping/Filtering

used

CANCEL GET permits abrupt

termination of Linked Get responses
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CMIP

CMIPM:
CMIP Machine

CMIP(CMIPM) performs two functions

Initiates appropriate operation according
to the CMISE requests
Sends valid CMIP messages

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Comparison of Frameworks

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CMOT

CMIS/CMIP over TCP/IP

Implement CMIS Services over

TCP/IP Protocol

Vendors do not like half-solutions

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