SMC Networks 6.20 manual Interface Administration, Field Description for Interface Admin Window

SNMP MIB MANAGEMENT

	Table 6-3 Field Descriptions for System Information Window
Field	Description
System Up for	Time since the SNMP agent was last re-initialized.
Contact	Name of contact person for this monitored node; and how to make contact.
Name	Administrative designation for this node.
Location	Physical location of this node.
Service Layers	Internet protocol services offered by this node. The OSI model includes: (1) Physical, (2) Data Link,
	(3) Network, (4) Transport, (5) Session, (6) Presentation, and (7) Application layers.

Interface Administration

Data for this window is extracted from the Interface Group in MIB II (RFC 1213). Each MAC frame type supported by a physical network interface is listed as a unique logical network interface in the display window. (Refer to ifType in RFC 1156.) For example, even though there may only by one physical network interface on a monitored device, it may concurrently support both ethernet-csmacd and iso88023-csmacd. Also note that the same type may be reported more than once where a logical interface includes several valid subtypes. For example, ethernet-802.2 and ethernet-II both fall under ethernet-csmacd.

This window provides a description and status information on each subnetwork connected to this system.

Field Description for Interface Admin Window

	Table 6-4 Field Description for Interface Admin Window
Field	Description
Interface (Index)	A unique index for each subnetwork connection.
Description	A textual description of the interface, which may include items such as the product name,
	manufacturer, or version number for the hardware interface.
Type	The interface type based on the physical/link protocols running immediately below the network
	layer, e.g. ethernet-csmacd (where csmacd indicates Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision
	Detection).
Physical Address	The interface address used at the protocol layer immediately below the network layer. This value
	will be zero for interface types that do not support such an address.

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