|  |     	Hi,
    
    	To access your DECconcentrator 500 using SNMP, your 
    DECconcentrator must be at rev. 3.0 of firmware. This version
    is available since some months, so it must not be a problem
    to get it if unfortunately, you don't have it on your
    DECconcentrator.
    
    	DECconcentrator 500 v.3.0 of firmware allows only SNMP Get
    command. You'll need the next version (3.1) for SNMP SET command,
    it must be announced very soon, so your customer must purchase
    the upgrade firmware license.
    
    	To be able to access the DECconcentrator 500 through SNMP,
    you must set an IP address on the box. Today, there is two way
    to do it :
    	. through BOOTP protocol from a node acting as BOOTP server
    	. through DEC Network Management software as DECelms, DECmsu v.1.1
    	  or DECmcc/DEC ELM v.1.0
    
    	Help this help
    	Patrick
    
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|  |     
    
    	My customer has several questions regarding the SNMP agent and the 
    vendor specific MIB for the DECconcentrator 500:
    
    	1) Is there a vendor supplied SNMP MIB extension for the DC500? 
    	   They have noticed that standard MIB-2, other than the GIGAswitch
    	   vendor supplied MIB, is the only MIB available when registering 
    	   a DC500 under DECmcc
    
    	2) What traps is the V3.4A DECconcentrator agent capable of
    	   generating? Where are they documented? 
    	
    	3) Is there a User's Manual available for the DC500 V3.4A SNMP
    	   Agent?
    
    	The reason that the customer would like to have answers to these
    questions is because they want to move away from DECmcc as their
    standard NMS and go purely SNMP. They realize that the Concentrator AM
    for DECmcc is rich in features but they also realize that the CONC
    access module has nothing to do with SNMP. They would like to see the
    feature richness of the DECmcc CONC AM integrated into perhaps a vendor
    MIB extension for the DC500.
    
    	4) Is something like this planned or underway?
    
    
    
    	Thanks,
                               
    	Dave                                  
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