Note that for your DMM to receive traps from the other stations, your DMM must be defined as a trap receiver in the community table of the other stations.

After setting all the parameters for DMM you must ensure that you save them using the following command:

8260A> save device

You can display the current device settings for DMM using the following command:

8260A> show device

An example of the output from this command is shown in Figure 28.

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8260A> show device

IBM 8260 Distributed Management Module (DMM) v2.10-H pSOS+ SNMP

 

Name: 8260A

 

 

 

 

 

Location:

 

 

 

 

 

ITSO LAB, Building 657, Raleigh

 

 

 

 

 

For assistance contact:

 

 

 

 

 

Mohammad Shabani, 301-2339

 

 

 

 

 

Operational Version: v2.10-H

Boot Version:

v1.01

 

 

 

Serial Number: 1067067

Service Date:

94/04/21

Restarts: 59

 

Dip Configuration: DISABLED

Diagnostics:

DISABLED

 

 

 

Reset Mastership: ENABLED

Trap Receive: ENABLED

 

 

 

MAC Address Order: NONCANONICAL

 

 

 

 

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8260A>

 

 

 

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Figure 28. Output from Show Device Command

4.2.4.5 Configuring DMM IP Parameters

As mentioned earlier in this chapter, DMM will use the IP stack provided by

T-MAC and E-MAC to communicate with the other IP stations. For DMM to use the IP stack of E-MAC and T-MAC, you must first perform the following tasks:

1.Assign the following parameter for one or more of the backplane segments:

IP address

For example, to assign an IP address of 9.67.46.235 to the token_ring_10 segment on the ShuntBus, you must use the following command:

8260A> set ip ip_address 9.67.46.235 token_ring_10

Subnet mask

For example, to assign a subnet mask of 255.255.255.240 to the token_ring_10 segment on the ShuntBus, you must use the following command:

8260A> set ip subnet_mask ff.ff.ff.f0 token_ring_10

Default gateway

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8260 specifications

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