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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

3292.0. "Bulk Update Possible ?" by GIDDAY::MUNN (Slothy Dogs Rule the Earth) Fri Feb 16 1996 19:13

    I am working for a customer who has several hundred DR900 fibre
    repeaters (2 ports each). The customer has hubwatch and newview. They
    want to enable eavesdropping protection on EVERY repeater port (each
    one goes to a single X-terminal or printer).
    
    I know how to do this via HUBwatch, but I don't fancy doing a couple of
    thousand times.  Is there a simpler way to bulk chnage all of the
    repeaters?
    
    BTW: There is no intention to specify MAC address for the ports (i.e.
    just use the first heard method).
    
    /richard

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
3292.1	Bulk changes R us	SLINK::HOOD	They call me MISTER Dilbert.	`Mon Feb 19 1996 10:30`	4
	clearVISN Resilience will do bulk changes! Tom Hood clearVISN apps
3292.2	NetView?	GIDDAY::MUNN	Slothy Dogs Rule the Earth	`Wed Feb 21 1996 05:58`	6
	Well, I don;t really want to buy another product to do this job. I've got NetView which has the snmpset ultility. So the questions is, can I use that to set the attributes I want ?? /richard
3292.3		NETCAD::DOODY	Michael Doody	`Wed Feb 21 1996 09:31`	9
	But would Resilience really only be doing that one job? You'll also want it for backing up all those hub & repeater configurations. No more drudgery of making all those LANs and port groupings just because you add a hub or repeaters. But anyway, to answer your question, all the management of hub products is done via SNMP. So yes, you can do it if you read the MIBs. -Mike
3292.4	Can't find it !	GIDDAY::MUNN	Slothy Dogs Rule the Earth	`Wed Feb 21 1996 14:29`	20
	Ok, now I'm really confused!!! I dragged the MIB defn from gatekeeper, had a scan through it and found the eavesdropping stuff. I then went over to Netview, loaded the MIB definition OK the used the MIB brower to go down the MIB. All seemed to go well, I got down to ...dechub900.repeater.rptrVersion.... so the browser was following the MIB OK, but when told to query, it found nothing at .repeater. In fact a walk of the MIB stops at dechub.3 (the repeater is at 5). By the way, the repeater in question is a 90FS. I know it can be got at since HUBwatch can set the eavesdropping stuff OK. Does this mean I'm using the wrong MIB ? (dec-hub900-erptr-mib-v2-0.txt) /richard
3292.5		NETCAD::DOODY	Michael Doody	`Wed Feb 21 1996 14:47`	6
	It may mean you're using the wrong community string. If you are using the MAM's IP address to query the repeater, you need to use the SNMP gateway by specifying the slot number. Like "public-3" to access the module in slot 3. -Mike
3292.6	direct snmp to repeater	NETCAD::CURRIER		`Wed Feb 21 1996 15:54`	15
	...dechub900.3.... is the ptrm mib which resides only on the management agent in the hub. As Mike said, you must directly query the repeater to access repeater mib objects. This can be done by using the ip address of the repeater with community string public or by using the ip address of the hub management agent (mam) with community string public-# where # is slot number The repeaters do support these mib objects -sheila
3292.7	it works now	GIDDAY::MUNN	Slothy Dogs Rule the Earth	`Wed Feb 21 1996 17:15`	10
	Yes, it's all my fault. I had assigned a R/W community string of netman then failed to to use netman-3 to access port 3. Since correcting this it all works fine. Thanks you all! /richard