Managing the message: Message tracking

MITRE has implemented a software prototype in accordance with an Internet draft standard for SNMP-based message tracking. This paper discusses the SNMP-based mechanism used to query the messaging system for data about specific messages. SNMP is a mature network and application management technology that provides an abundance of user tools, a cross-vendor, cross-technology ubiquity. SNMP provides a migration path to a secure solution, and to web-based user interfaces. SNMP is the only approved Internet standard for application management. Use of the approach in this paper will allow development of message tracking applications that can operate in a multi-vendor messaging environment: the approach is a standard approach open to any messaging vendor