Avaya Snmp Native Agent Software, Agent Administration, Avaya IP600 Data, Via the Snmp MIB

12 SNMP Native Agent Software

Avaya IP600 includes a SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) Native Agent. Native Agent provides a SNMP interface to the system’s alarm and error tables, select performance measurements, and select configuration data. Native Agent also supports SNMP traps for Avaya IP600 alarms and restarts, INTUITY alarms, and Windows NT events.

DEFINITY Network Management (DNM), Avaya’s SNMP-based DEFINITY fault and performance management product, also supports Avaya IP600. DNM runs on NT and UNIX workstations, and collects fault, performance, and configuration data from switches via the DEFINITY Proxy Agent. DNM receives Avaya IP600 data by sending SNMP requests to Avaya IP600’s SNMP Native Agent.

Users can integrate DNM with a Network Management System (NMS), either HP OpenView or Tivoli NetView. This allows users to manage their Avaya IP600s and data networks from a central location. The NMS catches traps that Native Agents send, colors the Avaya IP600 icons according to the trap’s severity, and records the traps in the NMS trap log. A network manager can use the NMS to copy and move the icons created for different Avaya IP600 devices to specific OpenView or NetView maps of their choosing. The network manager can then look at the Avaya IP600 data that the Native Agent provides by using the NMS’s MIB browser.

Agent Administration

All SNMP Agent Administration can be performed from the command line and Web server. An administrator specifies the community string that Agent uses for authentication. However, Agent must be restarted for community string administration changes to take effect. In addition, an administrator can specify the MIB access permissions and whether traps can be received for up to 50 different network managers (IP addresses). Again, Agent must be restarted for network manager administration changes to take effect.

Avaya IP600 Data

The Avaya IP600 SNMP Native Agent provides an MIB interface to all the configuration and fault data that the DEFINITY Proxy Agent provides for DEFINITY ECS devices (except, of course, for data that does not apply to Avaya IP600). The supported data is as follows:

Via the SNMP MIB

Agent provides Avaya IP600 version information for the active switch processing element (including memory resident software version, update identifier, and update state). It also supports retrieval of Avaya IP600 alarms, errors, and restarts.

Overview for Avaya IP600 Internet Protocol Communications Server
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