Specifications

SPECTRUM Software Release Notice (SSRN)

For SPECTRUM 6.6 with Service Pack 2 CD release

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Non-Persistent Connection Manager (NPC)

• Support for Multilink PPP has been added by allowing a Dialup_Link

model to be pasted on more than one interface on a single device

model. When the Dialup_Link model is pasted on each of the PPP

interfaces which make up the multilink, these interfaces will form a

secondary group. A new Dialup_Link model attribute,

DevSecGrpActiveCriteria, controls the method used to determine the

state of a secondary group, and thus the secondary link. This attribute

can be set from the Dialup_Link 'Information' GIB view to the following

values: “Any Secondary IF Active” - If any member of the secondary

group is active, then the multilink is active; “All Secondary IFs Active” -

If all members of the secondary group are active, then the multilink is

active.

• Support for Dialer Profile configurations has been added by allowing

Dialup_Link models to be pasted on the Dialer interfaces. These logical

interfaces represent a call to or from a particular peer. At call time, a

Dialer interface will dynamically bind to a physical interface which is

selected from a Dialer pool. Specialized intelligence was implemented

to infer the operational state of Dialer interfaces from its ifAdmin/ifOper

values as well as the state of any physical interfaces it may be bound

to.

SNMPv3

• The ability for users to manage SNMPv3 devices with SPECTRUM,

including SNMPv3 GET and SET requests, and Traps and Informs, is

now available. Users will have the full range of SNMPv3’s authentication

and encryption capabilities available to support fully secured

management traffic. A new “Model-by-IP” dialog allows the user to

select whether a new device should be managed through SNMPv3, and

if so, provides the user with options to choose the authentication/

encryption level and provide the relevant security parameters. Note

that SPECTRUM AutoDiscovery does not support automated discovery

and modeling of SNMPv3 devices.