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Conference azur::mcc

Title:	DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT.
Notice:	Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187
Moderator:	TAEC::BEROUD

Created:	Mon Aug 21 1989
Last Modified:	Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	6497
Total number of notes:	27359

1739.0. "Private MIB Extentions" by ROM01::LILLI () Wed Oct 30 1991 07:44

Hi everybody

Here in Italy we have a customer (Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura) that need 
to use an equipment called Idea-Concert that permits to connect IBM and DEC 
printers/terminals. This stuff is somethings like a Terminal Server.

Inside this equipment there is a TCP/IP stack and SNMP. Yesterday i had a 
meeting with the producer of the equipment (IDEA) and they told me that for 
the management aspects of the equipment they use the SNMP protocol. Now i need 
to understand if it is possible to use the SNMP - AM to manage it (adding 
private MIB). In particular if IDEA give us the ASN.1 description of the 
equipment can we add the IDEA-CONCERT as a sub entity of SNMP entity ?

The problem is that we would like to manage the functional aspects of the 
equipment not only the communication aspects. We are interested to perform the 
following operations :

	- Disconnect port 1
	- Show session 1
	- Show port 1
	- Set port 1 line speed 9600
	.......
	.......

In other words we would like to perform the operations like a Terminal Server 
AM operations. Do you think is it possible to do this using SNMP AM with IDEA 
MIB extentions or they have to develop an other AM ?


Thanks in advance


Raimondo

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1739.1	Level of management depends on SNMP agent.	DANZO::CARR		`Wed Oct 30 1991 08:12`	13
	Raimondo, Generally speaking, the SNMP AM should be able to manage IDEA equipment once the IDEA private mib extensions have been loaded. The level of management possible depends solely on what the vendor has made SNMP manageable. If the functional aspects that you mention in .0 are manageable via SNMP and the vendor has included this in their private mib, then the SNMP AM will allow this management capability. If, on the other hand, the vendor hasn't provided SNMP management capability for these things, then the SNMP AM won't be much help. Regards, Dan

Raimondo,

      Generally speaking, the SNMP AM should be able to manage IDEA equipment
once the IDEA private mib extensions have been loaded. The level of management
possible depends solely on what the vendor has made SNMP manageable.  If the
functional aspects that you mention in .0 are manageable via SNMP and the vendor
has included this in their private mib, then the SNMP AM will allow this 
management capability.  If, on the other hand, the vendor hasn't provided SNMP
management capability for these things, then the SNMP AM won't be much help.

Regards,

	Dan