Avaya 4 manual Product Description

DNM-NT/Windows 2000 4.0 Installation and Getting Started

1 Overview	December 2001
Product Description	Page 17

Product Description

DEFINITY Proxy Agent

DPA is a protocol conversion resource. It resides on a stand-alone personal computer and operates on the UnixWare operating system.

DPA uses serial ports and TCP/IP ports to collect configuration and management data from supported systems. It converst the data into the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). In addition, DPA generates SNMP traps when supported systems generate alarms and system errors.

DPA then communicates the SNMP data to DNM, which resides on the Network Management System (NMS) network server. The NMS network server can be NT/Windows 2000.