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| 4054.1 | Absolutely. | TOOK::MCPHERSON | pre-retinal integration | Mon Nov 09 1992 08:53 | 23 |
| >Is DECmcc able to be managed by another Manager of Managers. (excluding
>management via NETmaster. This would require a facility to pass on
>information to a higher level manager after filtering and processing.
Certainly. All you're talking about is development of a PM specific to your
management system. PMs (by definition) handle user interaction with the
management system and the system makes no distiction between carbon-based users
(humanoids) and silicon-based users (management systems or applications).
All you have to do is develop an agent PM that
1) understands your "super manager's" management protocol
2) is able to request the services of the MMs on the DECmcc system
(e.g. by issuing the appropriate requests across the mcc_call
interface, decoding the results, re-encoding them in the
'super-manager' protocol and returning the info.
Not something you'd do over the weekend, but certainly supported by the
architecture and the product (as witnessed by the Aetius folk's success).
/doug
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| 4054.2 | Some ways already being looked at | SKIBUM::GASSMAN | | Mon Nov 09 1992 16:14 | 10 |
| There is no standards in this area, although there are some emerging
ones. The SNMP V2 protocol has a manager to manager MIB in it, which
among other things allows one manager to request an alarm from another
manager when something occurs. There are some things in CMIP that
allow manager to manager to occur when things are very well specified.
In a pinch, a script file can be used to send off a SNMP trap to
another manager (although you need to find some code to send the trap
and write a mib defining your traps).
bill
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| 4054.3 | Network Management Forum works this way too | TOOK::STRUTT | Management - the one word oxymoron | Mon Nov 09 1992 16:36 | 7 |
| The Network Management Forum defines such an interworking. With an
NMF AM, DECmcc can manage NMF-compliant managed objects. With an NMF
Agent PM, DECmcc objects (that are supported by the PM) can be managed
by management systems operating at the "higher level".
This is, of course, quite consistent with the approach taken by the
�tius project.
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| 4054.4 | Is this a common request | ADO75A::HAMPTON | Bruce Hampton - Open Systems | Mon Nov 09 1992 16:43 | 5 |
| Thanks for all responses. Has anyone else been asked about having
DECmcc report up to something else e.g. HP or SUN.
Bruce
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