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Speech at the opening of the IFIP/IEEE Integrated Management 2007 Symposium by Prof. Dr. Berthold Faerber, member of the academic senate of the University of Federal Armed Forces, Munich. Recorded at the 10th Integrated Management Symposium (IM 2007), which was held May 21-25, 2007 in Munich, Germany.

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This tutorial discusses the standard Management Information Base: MIB-II. After an introduction it gives the status of the MIB-II, the original design goals, its basic structure and relationship to the TCP/IP layers, and the various groups (system, IF, AT, IP, ICMP, TCP, UDP, EGP, Transmission and SNMP). Note that this tutorial has previously been available as REAL media presentations, and is now converted to podcast format. The contents was created a few years ago, and some parts need to be updated. Completely updated podcasts on this topic are planned, however, for the second half of 2008.

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This tutorial starts with an example, discusses the difference between MIB definition and instance, and the modular structure of MIBs. It gives the list of current IETF hardware MIBs, transmission MIBs, network MIBs, transport MIBs, application MIBs and vendor specific MIBs. It concludes with naming of MIB modules. Note that this tutorial has previously been available as REAL media presentations, and is now converted to podcast format. The contents was created a few years ago, and some parts need to be updated. Completely updated podcasts on this topic are planned, however, for the second half of 2008.

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This tutorial introduces the Structure of Management Information (SMI). The SMI is a language that defines the syntax for management information that is stored in SNMP MIBs. After introducing SMI versions 1 and 2, this podcast discusses the syntax to define scalar objects (naming, instances, definition) and table objects (definition). Textual conventions and notification types are introduced too. Note that this tutorial has previously been available as REAL media presentations, and is now converted to podcast format. The contents was created a few years ago, and some parts need to be updated. Completely updated podcasts on this topic are planned, however, for the second half of 2008.

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This tutorial discusses the goals, principle operation, structure and SNMP standards. Note that this tutorial has previously been available as REAL media presentations, and is now converted to podcast format. The contents was created a few years ago, and some parts need to be updated. Completely updated podcasts on this topic are planned, however, for the second half of 2008.

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This tutorial provides an overview and the history of the ISO, ITU-T, IETF and DMTF management standards. It presents CMIP/CMIS, TMN and SNMP, and discusses the main differences between these approaches. Note that this tutorial has previously been available as REAL media presentations, and is now converted to podcast format. The contents was created a few years ago, and some parts need to be updated. Note that this tutorial has previously been available as REAL media presentations, and is now converted to podcast format. The contents was created a few years ago, and some parts need to be updated. Completely updated podcasts on this topic are planned, however, for the second half of 2008.

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Presentation at the IETF March 2007 Plenary in Prague. The presentation summarizes the results of the joint IRTF-NMRG and Emanics Workshop on challenges in Network Management research. This workshop took place in Utrecht, the Netherlands in October 2006. Further details can be found in an article with the same title by Pras et all; this article was published in IEEE Communications Magazine in October 2007.