Snmp Agent; Overview; Mib Compliance - Paradyne 8540 Network Configuration Manual

SNMP Agent

Overview

MIB Compliance

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The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an application-level
protocol used in network management. A Network Management System (NMS),
such as Paradyne's DCE Manager, communicates to an SNMP agent via SNMP
in order to obtain (get) specific parameters or variables within control of the
SNMP agent.
When DCE Manager is configured properly, it can communicate with the HotWire
DSLAM SNMP agent. Almost all communications between the DCE Manager and
the HotWire DSLAM SNMP agent originate with a request message from the
DCE Manager to the HotWire DSLAM. When the DSLAM receives the request,
the HotWire DSLAM SNMP agent processes the request message and transmits
a response (positive or negative) message back to the DCE Manager. When
certain significant events occur within the SNMP agent, this can result in
transmission of unprompted SNMP trap messages to the DCE Manager. (Note
that the HotWire DSLAM SNMP agent is SNMP Version 1 (V1) compliant with
community-based management.)
This chapter describes what you need to know to configure the SNMP agent
within the HotWire DSLAM. This chapter does not, however, describe the
procedures on how to configure the SNMP agent. For those procedures, see the
HotWire DSLAM for 8540 and 8546 DSL Cards User's Guide .
Various pieces of configuration, status, and statistical data within the HotWire
DSLAM SNMP agent form a database of information that is accessible from the
DCE Manager. This collection of information is called a Management Information
Base (MIB). The basic definitions of the content of an SNMP agent's MIB are
defined within various Internet Request for Comments (RFC) documents.
An HP OpenView MIB browser requires the operator to load the appropriate MIB
files into its database before it can manage the HotWire DSLAM network. For
more information about DCE Manager, see the DCE Manager for HP OpenView
for Windows User's Guide or the DCE Manager User's Guide .
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