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| 673.1 | It's being thought of | BONNET::LISSDANIELS | | Wed Aug 12 1992 10:23 | 10 |
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OBM support was being planned for the DECbridge series as a mid FY93 update.
If that schedule hold true remains to be seen after the current budget
revisions.
I support the idea, it would add greatly to the attractiveness of the product.
Torbjorn
European Marketing
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| 673.2 | OBM futures | BAGELS::LEVY | | Wed Aug 12 1992 13:04 | 7 |
| The OBM for DECbridges will not use a VT-compatible terminal. Rather,
it will require an SNMP-based NMS which supports the SLIP protocol. The
idea behind this new approach is to provide a true alternate path to
the SNMP Agent in the device.
The OBM interface for DECconcentrator is expected to migrate to this
style as well.
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| 673.3 | What !!??? | BONNET::LISSDANIELS | | Thu Aug 13 1992 05:00 | 14 |
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I know we asked for SLIP and SNMP support on the OBM port when the
OBM for DECconcentrator was developed.
It is great that the development team listened, BUT I think it would
be wrong to do away with the VT only compatibility. The functionality
should be selectable at installation.
Who is the product manager and project leader for this new effort ?
I want the field to get a chance to vote on this !
Torbjorn
European Marketing
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| 673.4 | Even simpler than SNMP, rs-232. | BSS::C_OUIMETTE | Don't just do something, sit there! | Thu Aug 13 1992 12:56 | 14 |
| I second .3; More so than listening to the field, I would think
that if we asked CUSTOMERS what they wanted, I can't imagine any of
them requesting that we "do away with that nasty terminal interface,
please" :^).
I think it's great that we're going to implement SLIP, or PPP on
the port, and kudos are definitely due; but anytime we FORCE customers
to purchase expensive management platforms in order to talk to our
products, we risk losing a customer to a different vendor who offers
a simpler management interface.
My 2 cents, from the peanut gallery.
chuck
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| 673.5 | contact names | BAGELS::LEVY | | Thu Aug 13 1992 18:30 | 6 |
| The product manager for DECbridges is Pravin (DELNI::) Shah.
The product manager for DECconcentrators is Karl (DELNI::) Pieper.
The technical focus for this OBM-mindset-change is Mark (KEMPF::)
Kempf.
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| 673.6 | we need VT support! | CTOAVX::BEAULIEU | | Fri Aug 21 1992 13:18 | 12 |
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You gotta be kidding me. No VT support on the OBM ports on DECbridge
6XX does not make sense. (At least to my customers, I asked and they
just bought 12 DECbridge 620s) They monitor the DECbridges through
DECmcc and SUN NET manager. They need the port as a backup to these
management systems and just want to hook up in an emergency. They will
not hook up modems to these ports and call in, it's too expensive for
them. Has anyone asked the customer base about this?
regards,
Mike Beaulieu
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| 673.7 | Latest OBM info | BONNET::LISSDANIELS | | Tue Aug 25 1992 17:34 | 26 |
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Modification of the Out-of-Band Management function.
It will give us Out-of-Band Management functions via SLIP.
(SLIP = Serial Line IP) Availability being planned for Q3 FY93.
The SLIP support will cause the current VT interface to go away.
Engineering is currently looking on 3:rd party device mgmt tools
using SLIP for PC's/Laptops that are available for $200-300.
This could replace the VT as a low cost mgmt solution.
However, some parameters such as pseudo dip switches and security parameters
will be observable and setable with a simple VT terminal interface now
termed "the local console function". The local console is specifically
intended to assist the user diagnose problems up to and including
establishing communication with a network management station using either
the in-band or out-of-band path.
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Cards and letters should be sent to Mark KEMPF::Kempf and Karl DELNI::Pieper
But please do not kill the SLIP effort - we need that for PTT's until they
adapt the GIGAswitch...
Torbjorn
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