Acfp Collaboration; Acfp Management; Acfp Information Overview - 3Com S7906E Configuration Manual

Interface-connecting component: It connects the interface of the routing/switching component to
that of the independent service component, allowing the devices of two manufacturers to be
interconnected.

ACFP Collaboration

ACFP collaboration means that the independent service component can send instructions to the
routing/switching component to change its functions. ACFP collaboration is mainly implemented
through the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). Acting as a network management system,
the independent service component sends various SNMP commands to the routing/switching
component, which can then execute the instructions received because it supports SNMP agent. In this
process, the cooperating MIB is the key to associating the two components with each other.

ACFP Management

ACFP collaboration provides a mechanism that enables the ACFP client to control the traffic on the
ACFP server by implementing the following functions:
Mirroring and redirecting the traffic on the ACFP server to the ACFP client
Permitting/denying the traffic from the ACFP server
Restricting the rate of the traffic on the ACFP server
Carrying the context ID in a packet to enable the ACFP server and ACFP client to communicate the
packet context with each other. The detailed procedure is as follows:
The ACFP server maintains a context table that can be queried with context ID. Each context ID
corresponds with an ACFP collaboration policy that contains information including inbound interface
and outbound interface of the packet, and collaboration rules. When the packet received by the ACFP
server is redirected or mirrored to the ACFP client after matching a collaboration rule, the packet carries
the context ID of the collaboration policy to which the collaboration rule belongs. When the redirected
packet is returned from the ACFP client, the packet also carries the context ID. With the context ID, the
ACFP server knows that the packet is returned after being redirected and then forwards the packet
normally.
For the ACFP client to better control traffic, the two-level structure of collaboration policy and
collaboration rules is set in the collaboration to manage the traffic matching the collaboration rule based
on the collaboration policy, implementing flexible traffic management.
To better support the Client/Server collaboration mode and granularly and flexibly set different rules, the
collaboration content is divided into four parts: ACFP server information, ACFP client information, ACFP
collaboration policy and ACFP collaboration rules. These four parts of information are saved in the
ACFP server.
An ACFP server supports multiple ACFP clients. Therefore, ACFP client information, ACFP
collaboration policy, and ACFP collaboration rules are organized in the form of tables.
ACFP server information is generated by the ACFP server itself. ACFP client information, ACFP
collaboration policy, and ACFP collaboration rules are generated on the ACFP client and sent to the
ACFP server through the collaboration MIB or collaboration protocol.

ACFP Information Overview

ACFP server information
ACFP server information contains the following:
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