Management Plane - IBM Nways 8265 Product Description

Management Plane

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Access Control
– Unauthorized users are prevented from accessing the network.
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Network Management
– Chassis Monitoring
This feature allows the network administrator to monitor the 8265
environment parameters (power supplies, inventory, temperature) via the
Control Point and Switch module. Environment parameters can be accessed
either via the console or via Telnet. SNMP traps are triggered when major
events (such as power supply failure and overheating) occur.
– Counters per virtual connection, port, and module
– ILMI support (3.0, 3.1, and 4.0) for plug-and-play operations on both physical
and VP links on all interface types (UNI, IISP, PNNI)
– SNMP support (Get, Getnext, Set, and Traps)
– MIB 2 support
– IETF AToMIB
– ATM Forum PNNI MIB.
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Box Services
– Command line interface
– Local RS-232 console
– Remote access via Telnet either inband (IP over ATM, IP over LAN
Emulation) or out-of-band (IP over SLIP)
– Ethernet port to connect a Management Station using Ethernet access.
– Code and hardware picocode upgrade via TFTP (inband or out-of-band)
– Dual codes images to resist download failures
– Download of Controller Module microcode
– Troubleshooting Support
– Counters
– Port mirroring
– Trace services
– Dump services
– Error logging in non-volatile storage
– Transfer of trace, dump, and error logs using TFTP (inband or
out-of-band)
– Configuration Services
– Management of configuration parameters in non-volatile storage
– Upload and download of configuration (for same microcode version) via
TFTP (inband or out-of-band)
– Box Survey
– Module monitoring and failure handling
– Switch Redundancy
– Automatic configuration synchronization
– Monitoring and automatic takeover in case of active switch failure.
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Chapter 3. Modules