HP FDDI 9000 HP9000 PCI FDDI Release Notes for HP-UX 10.20, 11.0 and 11i - Page 6

Requirements for Using Subagent, OLA/R Specific, Limitations

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HP9000 PCI FDDI Release Note - 11i What's New in This Version • FDDI-MIB: FDDI Management Information Base. See RFC1512. Requirements for Using Subagent The HP OpenView product is recommended, but you can use other SNMP managers to communicate with the subagent using manager applications (xnmbrowser) and commands. Use Managing HP-UX Software with SD-UX for HP-UX 11i as a reference guide for Patch installations. The HP OpenView Extensible SNMP Agent provides a good description for configuration. These documents can be obtained from http://doc.hp.com. OLA/R Specific When new cards are added online with SAM, the subagent will automatically be restarted. If new cards are added using rad(1M), the PCI FDDI subagent must be manually restarted. Limitations Due to card limitations, the PCI FDDI subagent doesn't support all FDDI-MIB objects and operations defined in RFC1512 or SMT 7.3. Listed below are the attributes that are not supported or have specific values and operations. • The following two groups are not supported by the PCI FDDI subagent. Requests for these attributes will lead to a NO VALUE RETURNED ERROR. fddimibMACCountersGroup fddimibPATHConfigTable • The following two attributes are not supported by the PCI FDDI card. A value of 1 is returned when a get operation is requested.Trying to set these attributes will lead to a READ ONLY ERROR. fddimibSMTStationAction fddimibPORTAction • The following five attributes take only one value for the PCI FDDI card. They are read only instead of read and write. Trying to set these attributes will lead to a READ ONLY ERROR. fddimibConfigPolicy fddimibMACRequestedPaths fddimibMACFrameErrorThreshold 6

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HP9000 PCI FDDI Release Note - 11i
What’s New in This Version
FDDI-MIB:
FDDI Management Information Base. See RFC1512.
Requirements for Using Subagent
The
HP OpenView
product is recommended, but you can use other SNMP managers to
communicate with the subagent using manager applications (
xnmbrowser
) and commands.
Use
Managing HP-UX Software with SD-UX for HP-UX 11i
as a reference guide for Patch
installations. The
HP OpenView Extensible SNMP Agent
provides a good description for
configuration. These documents can be obtained from
.
OLA/R Specific
When new cards are added online with SAM, the subagent will automatically be restarted. If
new cards are added using
rad
(1M), the PCI FDDI subagent must be manually restarted.
Limitations
Due to card limitations, the PCI FDDI subagent doesn’t support all FDDI-MIB objects and
operations defined in RFC1512 or SMT 7.3. Listed below are the attributes that are not
supported or have specific values and operations.
The following two groups are not supported by the PCI FDDI subagent. Requests for these
attributes will lead to a
NO VALUE RETURNED ERROR
.
fddimibMACCountersGroup
fddimibPATHConfigTable
The following two attributes are not supported by the PCI FDDI card. A value of 1 is
returned when a get operation is requested.Trying to set these attributes will lead to a
READ ONLY ERROR
.
fddimibSMTStationAction
fddimibPORTAction
The following five attributes take only one value for the PCI FDDI card. They are read
only instead of read and write. Trying to set these attributes will lead to a
READ ONLY
ERROR
.
fddimibConfigPolicy
fddimibMACRequestedPaths
fddimibMACFrameErrorThreshold