Conference npss::gigaswitch

>    1. Could someone please clarify what this community string based
>       multiplexing means ?

        Since the original MIB structures for managing bridges expect a
    single large network, they don't work very well for multiple domains
    running on the same device.  In order to allow you to manage bridges
    using MIB object, you'd have to duplicate MIB structures or come up
    with another way to communicate the different domains to the device
    being managed.

        It's a lot simpler to add a ":1" or a ":2" to a community string
    than to duplicate or change entire MIB structures, so the
    GIGAswitch/FDDI system takes the easy way out.

        Basically, when the GIGAswitch/FDDI system receives a SNMP SET or
    GET request with a ":n" at the end of the community string, it says
    "ah, they want this to apply to Logical Bridge Domain "n"".  It then
    strips off the ":n" and uses the rest as the regular read/write
    community string.
    
>    2. How to use the community string delimeter.

        If your read/write community string is "abcd" normally, you would
    specify "abcd:2" to manage Logical Bridge Domain 2.  The ":" character
    is the default delimiter.  This can be changed.

        See the BL3.1 release notes pages 6 and 7 for information.

>    
>    3. Is it possible to use manageworks to set up the above  - for
>       multiple domains using manageworks SNMP set script option ?
>       Customer says - he has to do all the set ups manually. 

        You should be able to do it, but I haven't checked it.  It's just a
    simple change to the community string.

>    4. Will the next version of ClearVisn due out in spring 1997 adequately
>       adress the above three points ?
>    

        I have no idea if they are doing anything special to make it easier
    for you.

>    An example illustrating the items in 1.2.3 would be  quite helpful.
>    

        See above.  Nothing is different except adding a ":n" to the
    read-write community string.

MDL

    
    Michael,
    
    Thanks for that reply. Now - if I want to create a script to load the
    SPT params for Logical domain 2 I need to use a community string of
    "08002bb31700:lbd2"
    
     Manageworks allows me to use just one community string for each domain
     from the edit community names menu. Hence - every time I want to restore
     the  SPT params to all the domains( after clock card is replaced or mgmnt
     memory is corrupt) - I need to create and execute a seperate script for
     each and every domian as each domain will have seperate community string.
    
     Is there any way I can create one script which will use different 
     community strings and load all the  bridge domain - params in one go.
    
     thanks for any clarifications and help.
    
     /mohan    
                                                        

         First - leave out the "lbd", it would just be 08002bb31700:2
    
         Second, I am not an experienced Manageworks user, but I believe
    that specifying the community string is not part of the script facility
    in Manageworks.  I suspect that you can only use the GUI pulldown menu
    to change the community string.
    
    MDL

    
    Thanks for that - I shall communicate that to my customer.
    
    /mohan

        I was wrong in my earlier reply - the correct syntax is indeed
    08002bb31700:lbd2   ..and not 08002bb31700:2 as I had stated before.
    
        The two valid suffixes are "lbd" and "ld", lbd for logical bridge
    domain, and ld for learning domain.
    
    ...sorry for any problems my error may have caused...
    
    MDL