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1.2 NEW FEATURES
1.2.1 Ease Of Use
o Motif based User Interface
o Enhanced Map editing tools
o Search across domains
o Dictionary Browser
o New status window on action verbs (Test, Enable, etc.)
o Alarm rule copy and modify
o Enhanced wildcard capability on alarm rule definitions
o Storage of read/write community names on per SNMP instance
basis
o SNMP proxy agent support
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o SNMP Vendor/Technology specific trap handling capability
o SNMP help extended when new mibs are added
o Appropriate MIB extensions displayed on a per entity basis
o Events based IP-reachability poller
1.2.2 Performance
Performance improvements have been realized in the following
areas:
o Iconic Map Startup
o Opening Domains
o Expanding an entity (look into)
o Notification throughput
1.2.3 Ease Of Development/Integration
The following items have been included to help make it easier to
integrate other applications and tools with DECmcc:
o Enhanced application launch capability
o Script Management Module
o Enhanced PM to PM communications
3.1.1 New Features
3.1.1.1 Map Window -
- Map Editing Tools
o Rectangular Select
o Group Drag
o Change Icon (MB3 popup menu over icon)
o Map Lock
- Status Area
o Displays messages with sequence number and timestamp and
also displays output of operations requiring no user
input which have been customized to not use Management
Window
- Subentity MB3 Popup Menu
o Get one from managed object
o Get all from managed object
o Get one from registration database
o Get all from registration database
- Edit Menu
o Backdrops (add, modify, delete)
o Snap-to-Grid (set grid size, turn grid on/off)
o Align (horizontal, vertical)
o Lock and Unlock Map
- Navigation Menu Membership Search
o Ability to determine which domains a global entity is in
and to open desired domain
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- Operation Qualifiers
o Via Manager
- Options Menu - Management
o Customizing Operations with no User Input
o Customize any action directive which requires no
arguments to execute in the Map Window and display
response in Map Window Status Area if operation
successful for all selected entities; else display popup
boxes for any entities which returned exceptions or bad
status
- Launched Applications in Applications Menu
3.1.1.2 Management Window -
- Status Area
o Displays messages with sequence number and timestamp
- Operation Qualifiers
o Via Manager
- Options Menu - Management
o Customizing Operations with no User Input
o Customize any action directive which requires no
arguments to execute in the Map Window and display
response in Map Window Status Area if operation
successful for all selected entities; else display popup
boxes for any entities which returned exceptions or bad
status
3.1.1.3 Datatype Enhancements -
- Sparse Records
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o Record will be encoded even if all fields are not filled
in.
- Encode Empty Record, Set of, Sequence of
o MB3 Popup menu over form text fields allows Send Empty
for attributes/arguments with datatypes of record, set
of, sequence of
- Expand Field
o Add Another (for set of, sequence of)
o Display Choices (for enumeration)
o Expand Field (for strings)
3.1.2 Map File Format Change From V1.2
A change was made to the map file format for V1.3 DECmcc. The
change is apparent in those map files which contain vector
backdrop objects. In V1.2 these objects were stored in the map
file. In V1.3 these objects are stored in a backdrop file, and a
"pointer" to that backdrop file is stored in the map file. This
change facilitated addition of support for specifying backdrops
using the IMPM interface.
V1.2 map files will be read by DECmcc V1.3, but if saved will be
saved in the V1.3 format. The change in format is invisible to
the user, but has one side effect with regard to text objects in
the map. Since the IMPM cannot differentiate between
backdrop-related text and other text added using the alphabet
tool in the Toolbox, all text is assumed to be non-backdrop text.
The result is that text objects will not be saved in the backdrop
file when a V1.2 map is converted to the V1.3 format. The text
objects will remain part of the map file.
The best way to convert map files with vector backdrops is to
open the relevant domain, delete the backdrop by choosing the
Edit->Backdrop->Delete option, delete any backdrop-related text
using the single-line delete tool in the Toolbox, add a V1.3
vector backdrop and save the map.
An alternative is to edit the map file manually (not recommended)
and change the object_type of all backdrop-related text from 7 to
18. If this is done, when the V1.2 map file is saved in the IMPM
it will be converted to V1.3 format and all the text objects with
object_type 18 will be saved in the backdrop file (not the map
file).
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3.5.1 New Features
Major new features in Notification Services T1.3.1 include:
o You can select a notification, and find the entity in the
domain in which the notification occurred.
o Notification Filtering now has the following options
available:
- save filtering in a startup file
- Notifications that are not displayed due to filters can
be deleted.
- You can save and restore filters settings from file.
o The algorithm for deleting notifications from the
Notification Services window when the maximum notifications
is reached has been changed. The new algorithm is to remove
the oldest, lowest severity entry not in use by the map.
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o DECmcc now has the capacity to receive events from external
devices over UDP/IP as well as over DECnet and report them to
DECmcc via the Data Collector Access Module.
Refer to the Alarms and Notification Use for more details.
3.6 HISTORIAN FUNCTION MODULE
3.6.1 New Features
The Historian FM T1.3.1 provides the following new features:
o Recording of events
3.7 PERFORMANCE ANALYZER FUNCTION MODULE
3.7.1 New Features
The Performance Analyzer FM T1.3.1 provides the following new
features.
o Statistics on RMON data
3.8 DECnet PHASE IV ACCESS MODULE
The DECmcc DECnet Phase IV AM provides management access to
DECnet Phase IV entities.
The DECnet Phase IV AM has equivalents for all NCP commands
except Copy, Load, and Trigger. See DECnet Phase IV Access
Module Use for a table showing the equivalence of DECnet Phase IV
AM directives to NCP commands.
3.8.1 New Features
1. The DECnet Phase IV AM now returns the registered name of
Node4, and the Phase IV name of remote node and adjacent node
entities for registered node4 entities. To disable this
feature on a VMS system, define a logical MCC_DNA4_AM_LOG
that has the value 1000; for Ultrix, set an environment
variable of MCC_DNA4_AM_LOG that has the value 0x1000;
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