PCI FDDI Administrator's Guide

PCI FDDI
Network Management Using the PCI FDDI Subagent
Chapter 136
Network Management Using the PCI FDDI
Subagent
The PCI FDDI subagent is a daemon which will service the request for
FDDI MIB (Management Information Base) corresponding to the PCI
FDDI cards in the system. The Subagent feature is for HP-UX 10.20 and
11.x.
Important Terms and Definitions
• SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol. See RFC1155,
RFC1157, RFC1212, RFC1902.
• Master Agent: This is the master agent which directly
communicates with the management application, and decides which
subagent to forward the request to. It performs authentication,
packet receiving and sending.
• SMT: Station Management. Station Management manages the three
protocol layers of a FDDI station; MAC, PHY and PMD. SMT is a
subset of network management that allows initialization, control and
monitoring of hardware components related to the PCI FDDI
protocol layers.
• FDDI-MIB: FDDI Management Information Base. See RFC1512.
Requirements for Using Subagent
The HP OpenView product is recommended, but you can use other SNMP
managers to communicate with the subagent using manager
applications (xnmbrowser) and commands.
Use Managing HP-UX Software with SD-UX for HP-UX 11i as a
reference guide for Patch installations. The HP OpenView Extensible
SNMP Agent provides a good description for configuration. These
documents can be obtained from http://doc.hp.com.
OLA/R Specific (see next page)
See the section on the following page for an explanation of OLA/R.