Product Overview
The SNMP Agent software enables an enterprise server TCP/IP host to be managed by any standard SNMP manager system residing in the TCP/IP network.
The SNMP Agent supports
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Access to Internet Management Information Base II (MIB-II) attributes
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Access to the MIB-II Transmission Group extension attributes (802.3, FDDI, and ATM)
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Access to enterprise-specific MIB attributes for ClearPath servers
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Community names
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Traps
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Get, GetNext, and Set operations
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An application program interface (API) to object managers
The SNMP Agent provides communication to standard implementations of SNMP managers, either from Unisys or from outside vendors, as long as the implementation adheres to the SNMP protocol and the following Request for Comments (RFC) documents:
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RFC 1155 Structure and Identification of Management Information
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RFC 1157 A Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
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RFC 1212 Concise MIB Definitions
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RFC 1213 MIB-II
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RFC 1398 Ethernet-like Extension MIB
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RFC 1901 Introductions to Community-based SNMPv2
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RFC 3411 An Architecture for Describing SNMP Management Frameworks
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RFC 3412 Message Processing and Dispatching
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RFC 3413 SNMP Applications
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RFC 3414 User-based security Model
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RFC 3416 Version 2 of SNMP Protocol Operations
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RFC 3826 The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Cipher Algorithm in the SNMP User-based Security Model
General Features
The SNMP Agent provides the following features.
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Supports access to the following MIB-II functional groups:
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Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Group
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Internet Protocol (IP) Group
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User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Group
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Internet Control Messages Protocol (ICMP) Group
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System Group
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SNMP Group
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Interfaces Group
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Transmission Group
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Ethernet-like Interface Type MIB (attributes relating to connections on an 802.3/Ethernet LAN interface)
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FDDI MIB (attributes relating to connections on an FDDI interface)
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ATM MIB (RFC 1695)
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Enables the local system administrator of the agent to control and monitor the state of the SNMP Agent using networking operations interface commands.
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Includes the CNS Object Manager, which is implemented as a host library and manages the network interfaces (LAN, MEMORY, ATM, and FDDI lines) attached to an enterprise server.
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Supports enhanced trap control.
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Ensures that management stations displaying SNMP traps can organize the traps by their User Datagram Protocol (UDP) source IP address. The NW SNMP TRAPSOURCE command supports this feature.
New Features/Enhancements
The following new features and enhancements were added for this release:
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Enhanced SNMP support for community-based Simple Network Management Protocol Version 2 (SNMP v2c)
Support for SNMP v2c enables GetBulk operations, Counter64 support, and extended error codes.
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Enhanced SNMP support for SNMP v3
Support for SNMP v3 enables enhanced security levels with user-based security model (USM) for SNMP v3 (with MD5 and SHA-1 for authentication and DES and AES for privacy). MCP User Management has also been enhanced to support SNMP v3 user attributes.
Ordering Information
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ClearPath |
SNMP Agent for TCP/IP Networks is included as part of the operating environment. |
Source code is not available for this product.
Product Information
Refer to the following documents for more information:
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SNMP Agent Implementation and Operations Guide (3787 7719)
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SNMP Object Managers for ClearPath MCP Implementation Guide (3789 7246)
