Alcatel-Lucent 6800, 9000, 6850 Ethernet Interfaces, Generic UDP Relay, Health Statistics

Software Supported

Ethernet Interfaces

Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet port software is responsible for a variety of functions that support Ethernet, Gigabit, and 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports. These functions include initialization of ports, notifying other soft- ware modules when a port goes down, configuration of basic line parameters, gathering of statistics for Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet ports, and responding to administrative enable/disable requests.

Configurable parameters include: autonegotiation (copper ports 10/100/1000), trap port link messages, flood control, line speed, duplex mode, inter-frame gap, resetting statistics counters, and maximum and peak flood rates.

Flood control is configurable on ingress interfaces (flood rate and including/excluding multicast).

Generic UDP Relay

In addition to BOOTP/DHCP relay, generic UDP relay is available. Using generic UDP relay, traffic destined for well-known service ports (e.g., NBNS/NBDD, DNS, TFTP, and TACACS) or destined for a user-defined service port can be forwarded to a maximum of 256 VLANs on the switch.

The 6.1.3.R01 release provides support for this feature on the OmniSwitch 6800 Series, OmniSwitch 6850 Series, and OmniSwitch 9000 Series.

Health Statistics

To monitor resource availability, the NMS (Network Management System) needs to collect significant amounts of data from each switch. As the number of ports per switch (and the number of switches) increases, the volume of data can become overwhelming. The Health Monitoring feature can identify and monitor a switch’s resource utilization levels and thresholds, improving the efficiency in data collection.

Health Monitoring provides the following data to the NMS:

•Switch-level input/output, memory and CPU utilization levels

•Module-level and port-level input/output utilization levels For each monitored resource, the following variables are defined:

•Most recent utilization level (percentage)

•Average utilization level over the last minute (percentage)

•Average utilization level over the last hour (percentage)

•Maximum utilization level over the last hour (percentage)

•Threshold level

Additionally, Health Monitoring provides the capacity to specify thresholds for the resource utilization levels it monitors, and generates traps based on the specified threshold criteria.

HTTP/HTTPS Port Configuration

The default HTTP port and the default Secure HTTP (HTTPS) port can be configured for the embedded Web server in the switch.

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