Novell Nms Hmi Compliance - Compaq Netelligent 2008 User Manual

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Novell NMS HMI Compliance

The repeater firmware emulates an HMI driver to support repeater
autodiscovery in Novell networks. A Hub Management Interface (HMI) driver
is an ODI driver running on a NetWare server that is compliant with the Novell
HMI specification. A node may emulate an HMI driver by supporting the
Novell NWHUB.MIB and IPX autodiscovery. The repeater requires an
attached Novell NetWare server to support IPX autodiscovery. IPX
autodiscovery requires that the firmware support the following protocols:
SAP
firmware to advertise its services. SAP requests are broadcast over IPX
every 60 seconds. The SAP packet contains the SAP IDs of the available
services. A repeater's SAP packet uses a hex SAP ID of "0239" (HMI
services) and a hex SAP ID of "05A9" (repeater services; used to display
the correct icon on the NMS segment map). The NetWare server stores
the available services in its bindery.
RIP
by TCP/IP and IPX routers. The firmware supports RIP to allow NMS to
ascertain the repeater's MAC address, thus allowing NMS to initiate
SNMP over IPX communications.
IPX Diagnostics
NetExplorer server which updates the NMS database with the current
network configuration.
SNMP over IPX
it using SNMP over IPX. Therefore, the firmware must support SNMP
over IPX and IPX traps.
The Novell Services Advertising Protocol (SAP) allows the
Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is the routing protocol used
IPX diagnostics are required to support the Novell
If NMS discovers a repeater using IPX, it manages
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