10 AT-8800 Series Switch User Guide
Software Release 2.6.1
C613-02039-00 REV A
Management Features
The following features enhance management of the switch:
■A sophisticated and configurable event logging facility for monitoring and
alarm notification to single or multiple management centres.
■Triggers for automatic and timed execution of commands in response to
events.
■Scripting for automated configuration and centralised management of
configurations.
■Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) for IP and IPv6. DHCP lets
you automatically assign IP addresses and other configuration information
to PCs and other hosts on TCP/IP networks.
■Support for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), standard
MIBs and the Allied Telesyn Enterprise MIB, enabling the switch to be
managed by a separate SNMP management station.
■Telnet client and server.
■Secure Shell remote management.
■An HTTP client that allows the direct download of files from a web server
to the router’s FLASH memory.
For complete descriptions of these software features, see the AT-8800 Series
Switch Software Reference.
Software Features
AT-8800 Series Intelligent Workgroup Switches provide efficient and cost-
effective multiprotocol routing, terminal serving and integrated network
management over wide area networks and LANs. All models can run the same
software suite and can provide all of the following functions simultaneously
(depending on the hardware configuration):
■Wide area networking via Point-to-Point Protocol.
■TCP/IP routing.
■Novell® IPX routing.
■AppleTalk routing.
■Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) protocols.
■IP multicast routing support, including Internet Group Management
Protocol (IGMP), Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP)
and Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Sparse and Dense Modes.
■Ping Polling for determining device reachability and responding when a
device or link goes up or down.
■IPv6 routing support, including stateless address autoconfiguration, RIPv6
and ICMPv6.
■IPv6 multicast routing support, including Multicast Listener Discovery
(MLDv2) and Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Sparse and Dense
Modes.
■OSPF, RIP (IP and Novell®), SAP (Novell®), EGP and BGP routing
protocols.
■ARP, Proxy ARP and Inverse ARP address resolution protocols.