Allied Telesis 2.6.1 manual Management Features, Software Features

10 AT-8800 Series Switch User Guide

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.

Software Release 2.6.1 C613-02039-00 REV A