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Conference netcad::hub_mgnt

Title:	DEChub/HUBwatch/PROBEwatch CONFERENCE
Notice:	Firmware -2, Doc -3, Power -4, HW kits -5, firm load -6&7
Moderator:	NETCAD::COLELLADT

Created:	Wed Nov 13 1991
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	4455
Total number of notes:	16761

2941.0. "Short Fuse RFP that I need help on..." by STRWRS::KOCH_P (It never hurts to ask...) Wed Nov 01 1995 11:03

    
    I have a gotten a "short fuse" RFP and need some answers from all that
    can help.
    
    1. Has anyone had any experience integrating HUBwatch for Windows with
    Castlerock SNMPc?
    
    2. Is IBM System Wiring 150 ohm compatable with our repeaters?
    
    3. Is there or will there be a password on the SETUP port and the OBM
    port?
    
    4. What is the best term for our eavesdrop protection on our repeater
    ports? scrambling?
    
    5. Has the DEChub 900 been test to MIL-HDBK-217E?
    
    6. Are we ISO9000 certified?
    
    7. We don't yet support TELNET to the console port. Do we expect to
    support TELNET in the future?
    
    8. Can all settings for modules be queried by SNMP and then reset using
    SNMP sets? This includes virtual lans across the backplane?
    
    
    Again, any and all help will be appreciated...

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2941.1	Number 8...	SLINK::HOOD	My God, what have I done to my spleen?	`Wed Nov 01 1995 11:16`	18
	> 8. Can all settings for modules be queried by SNMP and then reset using > SNMP sets? This includes virtual lans across the backplane? That is the only way to do it. The only exceptions I can think of are: - Setting a module's IP address & community string (This, for reasons that will be apparent if you think about it for a while, is not quite possible.) - DECservers. Many DECserver settings are not SNMP-available. - Routers. Historically, routers have not been SNMP managed. This is changing, but slowly. As far as the backplane lans, yes, anyone can do SNMP to read or set them, but keeping track of 7 tables concurrently is not an easy task. Hence, we sell a lot of HUBwatch and clearVISN Resilience (which both use SNMP exclusively to do this). Tom Hood clearVISN
2941.2	A few more answers	NETCAD::HERTZBERG	History: Love it or Leave it!	`Wed Nov 01 1995 11:34`	20
	>> 2. Is IBM System Wiring 150 ohm compatable with our repeaters? No. Our repeaters conform to 10Base-T industry standards, which call out 100 ohm wiring. >> 4. What is the best term for our eavesdrop protection on our repeater >> ports? scrambling? We sometimes call it "jamming" the packet. If eavesdropping security is enabled and the destination address of the packet is not an authorized address on the port, the data portion of the packet is replaced with a "jam pattern," which I believe is something like alternating ones and zeroes. >> 6. Are we ISO9000 certified? Yes.
2941.3	One more answer	NETCAD::MILLBRANDT	answer mam	`Wed Nov 01 1995 16:39`	19
	> 3. Is there or will there be a password on the SETUP port and the OBM > port? No - but a level of security is provided: - The SETUP port can only be accessed on site by directly connecting a terminal or PC to the port. If site access is secure, use of the SETUP port is secure. There is no modem control provided on the port for remote access. Functions such as setting the IP address, subnet mask, gateway address, and setting SNMP community read and read/write names can only be done from the SETUP port. Setting trap sink addresses is another SETUP-only function. - The OBM port cannot be used to set any of the things listed above. It can be used for Hubwatch, but then the user must know the appropriate community names, which the user can only learn via the site-secure SETUP port.
2941.4	Physical security...	PTOJJD::DANZAK	Pittsburgher �	`Thu Nov 02 1995 17:17`	4
	NOte - that if you have PHYSICAL ACCESS to the hub - you could do far more damage to it that with a PC....(grin) j