Cabletron Systems Network Router - Manual

Contents iv Using SPMA Applications in a Stand-alone Mode ......................... 2-20WhatÕs Next?......................................................................................... 2-21 Chapter 3 Getting Started Creating Cabletron Network Objects ...............................................

Contents v The SPMA Launcher Database........................................................... 4-22 Changing the Polling Rate........................................................... 4-23Sorting the Devices Listed in the Database ............................... 4-24Deleting Devices from the Data...

1-1 Chapter 1 Introduction to SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manageron Solaris How to use this guide; manual conventions; contacting the Cabletron Systems Global Call Center SPECTRUM ¨ for Solstice Enterprise Manager (SEM) adds comprehensive remote management support for all of Cabletron SystemsÕ ...

Introduction to SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager on Solaris 1-2 Using this Guide views themselves, via the Glyph menu; or, for operation in stand-alone mode, from the Stand-alone Launcher or the command line. SPECTRUM for SEM also expands the graphical reporting capabilities of Solstice Ente...

Introduction to SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager on Solaris 1-4 Year 2000 Compliance devices. This Appendix also describes how to create a generic SNMP icon for general SNMP stack management of third-party devices. What’s NOT in this Guide . . . This guide is intended to provide you with the...

Introduction to SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager on Solaris Conventions 1-5 workstationÕs system time value to display the time and date of the last contact change Ñ will now display these date values with eight digits (05/31/1998) instead of six (05/31/98). Please keep in mind, however, tha...

Introduction to SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager on Solaris 1-6 Conventions re-size the information in the window; it just changes the amount of information that can be displayed (see Figure 1-1 ). When you shrink a window, scroll bars will appear as necessary so that you can scroll to view ...

Introduction to SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager on Solaris Conventions 1-7 Figure 1-2. The History Window Launching Documentation The SPMA documentation set is now provided in electronic format and installed with your SPMA program Þles, along with AdobeÕs Acrobat Reader application. The Gui...

Introduction to SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager on Solaris 1-8 Conventions Using the Mouse The UNIX mouse has three buttons. Procedures within the SPMA document set refer to these buttons as follows: Figure 1-3. Mouse Buttons If youÕre using a two-button mouse, donÕt worry. SPMA doesnÕt mak...

Introduction to SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager on Solaris Getting Help 1-9 mouse button to use. All other panels from which menus can be accessed, and all buttons which do not provide access to menus, will operate according to SPMA convention, as documented. Getting Help If you need additi...

Introduction to SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager on Solaris 1-10 Getting Help For additional information about Cabletron Systems products, visit our World Wide Web site: http://www.cabletron.com/ . For technical support, select Service and Support . 00-Instl_SEM-Solaris_Book Page 10 Monday, ...

2-1 Chapter 2 Installing SPECTRUM forSolstice Enterprise Manager Hardware and software requirements; installation procedures; installing SPMA modules for stand-alone operation Beginning with the 3.2rev1 release, SPMA applications are now sold and shipped as a single part number which includes all av...

Installing SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager 2-2 Installation Prerequisites Installing SPMA Files on your Workstation Whether youÕre installing SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager on Solaris for the Þrst time, or installing an additional device module or product upgrade, you follow the s...

Installing SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager Preparing Your Workstation for Installation 2-3 applications simultaneously, you may improve performance by assigning additional swap space. The SPMA core product and device modules require hard disk space as speciÞed below: SPMA Core 71 megabytes ...

Installing SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager 2-4 Preparing Your Workstation for Installation To Install from a Local CD-ROM Drive 1. Log on to the workstation as root. 2. Create a directory for the CD mount point by typing: mkdir /cdrom 3. Insert the CD into the CD-ROM drive and mount the CD ...

Installing SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager Preparing Your Workstation for Installation 2-5 5. If you did not start the windowing environment as root you will also need to give root permission to display by switching to the username you used to launch the windowing environment, and typing th...

Installing SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager Installing SPMA 2-7 9. Mount the CDROM drive workstation using the following command: if you are using a Solaris machine as the CD drive workstation mount -r -o hard,intr <remote hostname>:/cdrom/cdrom0 /cdrom if you are not using a Solaris m...

Installing SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager Installing SPMA 2-9 Figure 2-2. Install Product Selection Window 4. Click on Next to proceed with installation; an Install Configuration window like the example shown Figure 2-3 will appear. The directory you are installing from will be displayed i...

Installing SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager 2-10 Installing SPMA Figure 2-3. Install ConÞguration window 5. You can change the directory you are installing to by either clicking on Browse and selecting a new directory, or by typing in the path of the new directory in the Install to: field. T...

Installing SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager Installing SPMA 2-11 ! CAUTION We strongly recommend that you install to the default /usr directory. However, if you choose to install to a different directory, please keep the following cautions in mind: First, use care when typing in the director...

Installing SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager Installing SPMA 2-13 Integrating SPMA with Solstice Enterprise Manager Several Solstice Enterprise Manager Þles and directories must be updated to include the information used to run SPMA. The integration process which immediately follows the insta...

Installing SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager 2-14 Installing SPMA Second, you will be prompted to re-initialize Solstice Enterprise Manager to complete the integration process. If you choose to re-initialize, the integration script will run the em_services -r command for you immediately, and ...

Installing SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager Installing SPMA 2-15 The CTRONDB variable deÞnes the directory in which SPMA will store the various database Þles created and maintained by its applications; these typically contain management information set by the user, such as default polling in...

Installing SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager 2-16 Installing SPMA For all shells, be sure you have logged in with the user name that you will use to run SPMA, then use your favorite text editor to do the following: For C Shell Make the following entry in your .login Þle: setenv CTRONDB <an...

Installing SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager Installing SPMA 2-17 A Note About Environment Variables (For Previous Users Only!) As mentioned above, all necessary environment variables are now set automatically (and temporarily) each time you launch an application. If you are launching an appl...

Installing SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager 2-18 Installing SPMA Testing for and Correcting Potential NIS Problems In some network environments, NIS servers can take a signiÞcant amount of time to resolve host names to IP addresses. Whether this is due to an anomaly in the server software or...

Installing SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager Installing SPMA 2-19 a. During installation, a default rc.ctron file was copied to the /usr/ctron/conf directory; move this file to the location and name specified below: /usr/ctron/conf/rc.ctron to /etc/rc3.d/S99rcctron b. Using your favorite text...

Installing SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager 2-20 Using SPMA Applications in a Stand-alone Mode By default, the pnisd daemon will copy the NIS database to the /tmp directory on the local machine, and will refresh the database every 5 minutes. To change these default values, follow the pnisd c...

Installing SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager What’s Next? 2-21 installation procedure described above. SpeciÞc commands for starting each application are included in the SPMA Tools Guide and in each device- and application speciÞc User Õs Guide ; the Stand-alone Launcher is described in Chapt...

Installing SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager 2-22 What’s Next? 00-Instl_SEM-Solaris_Book Page 22 Monday, October 5, 1998 11:41 AM

3-1 Chapter 3 Getting Started Using SPMA Discover; manually creating Cabletron device glyphs; configuring glyph object properties; a few words about MIB components and community names A Cabletron device glyph in a Solstice Enterprise Manager management database gives you the best of both worlds: the...

Getting Started 3-2 Using the SPMA Discover Application use the Solstice Enterprise Manager Discover tool to create your network objects, you automatically create glyphs that represent your network objects, including Cabletron devices; however, the SEM Discover tool cannot create Cabletron Systems g...

Getting Started Using the SPMA Discover Application 3-3 Launching SPMA Discover The SPMA Discover tool is located in the Solstice Enterprise Manager console Tools menu. It doesnÕt matter which console view window you have open when you launch SPMA Discover; SPMA Discover will examine every active (t...

Getting Started 3-4 Manually Creating a Cabletron Systems Glyph SPMA Discover and SmartSwitch 9000 Devices Because each SmartSwitch 9000 module is an intelligent device with its own management capability and its own IP address, Solstice Enterprise Manager will discover each module individually, and ...

Getting Started Configuring Cabletron Glyph Properties 3-5 2. Select Tools—>Object Palette to open the Object Palette Viewer. 3. In the Object Palette window, click to select the object you want. The Object Configuration Tool window, which allows you to configure object properties, will appear. O...

Getting Started Configuring Cabletron Glyph Properties 3-7 For a manually-created glyph, you must assign a glyph Name (either the IP address or hostname associated with the device you wish to model) and supply the appropriate community names (both the sNMPusrRdCommunity and sNMPusrWrCommunity for ol...

Getting Started 3-8 Configuring Cabletron Glyph Properties Assigning or Editing Community Names There are three Þelds in the middle of the Object ConÞguration Tool window (in the Object Description section) that allow you to edit and/or set community name access for the device associated with the se...

Getting Started Configuring Cabletron Glyph Properties 3-9 Selecting MIB Agent Files If you plan to use the Solstice SNMP Browser tool against the Cabletron devices you are adding, you may want to assign the appropriate MIB agent Þles to each glyph so that the Browser can successfully query each dev...

Getting Started 3-10 Configuring Cabletron Glyph Properties Manually Creating SmartSwitch 9000 Module and Chassis Glyphs You can create a glyph for any individual SmartSwitch 9000 module by selecting the appropriate component available in the ToolsÑ>Object Palette window; these components are now...

Getting Started Configuring Cabletron Glyph Properties 3-11 For more information about conÞguring and using the SmartSwitch 9000 chassis Hub View, consult the SPMA SmartSwitch 9000 Chassis User Õs Guide . A Few Words about MIB Componentsand Community Names As you might expect, the Solstice Enterpris...

Getting Started 3-12 Starting SPMA Tools and Applications Starting SPMA Tools and Applications Except for SPMA Discover, all SPMA tools and applications are accessible from the Glyph menu, from inside the Hub View or Bridge View, and/or from the command line (for stand-alone mode). The Glyph menu fo...

Getting Started Starting SPMA Tools and Applications 3-13 Launching Documentation A new menu option available from the console Viewer window also provides access to all installed SPMA documentation Þles. (Documentation Þles are installed automatically based on the management modules you choose.) Sel...

Using the Stand-alone Launcher 4-2 About the Stand-alone Launcher About the Stand-alone Launcher The Stand-alone Launcher serves as a kind of simple network map, providing you with a quick view of device status and a database in which to store information about each of the Cabletron management devic...

Using the Stand-alone Launcher 4-4 About the Stand-alone Launcher The Þrst time you open the Launcher window, the list box will be empty, as shown above; each subsequent time you start the Launcher, the database you have created by adding and/or discovering devices will automatically be loaded, and ...

Using the Stand-alone Launcher About the Stand-alone Launcher 4-5 Device Type Displays the device type: EMME, MRXI-24, TRMM, etc., as detected by the most recent successful poll. Host Name/IP Address Displays the hostname or IP address used to deÞne the device when it was entered in the database. If...

Using the Stand-alone Launcher 4-6 Adding Devices to the Launcher Database Adding Devices to the Launcher Database There are two ways to add devices to the database: you can add them one at a time via the EditÑ>Add Device menu option, or you can perform a discover on one or more network segments ...

Using the Stand-alone Launcher 4-8 Adding Devices to the Launcher Database 4. In the Chassis/Read Community and Write Community fields, enter the community name(s) you want the Launcher (and all other SPMA applications) to use when contacting the device: For newer devices — such as the EMM-E6, TRMM-...

Using the Stand-alone Launcher Adding Devices to the Launcher Database 4-9 5. Click on Apply to add the device; if the entered IP address or host name is associated with an active device, the device entry will immediately appear in the list box with its contact status displayed, and will also be add...

Using the Stand-alone Launcher Adding Devices to the Launcher Database 4-11 Adding a SmartSwitch 9000 Chassis If you wish to add an individual SmartSwitch 9000 module to the Launcher, you may do so by following the instructions in the previous section; because each of these modules is an intelligent...

Using the Stand-alone Launcher 4-12 Adding Devices to the Launcher Database You can add both new and previously-deÞned SmartSwitch 9000 Chassis Views to the Launcher database, as follows: 1. From the Launcher menu bar select Edit and drag down to Add Device.The SPMA Launcher: Add Device window ( Fig...

Using the Stand-alone Launcher Adding Devices to the Launcher Database 4-13 A Special Note About the SmartSwitch 9500 There is one special case in the SmartSwitch 9000 family of devices: the SmartSwitch 9500. The SmartSwitch 9500 chassis incorporates the CTM (cell transfer matrix) backplane, and was...

Using the Stand-alone Launcher Adding Devices to the Launcher Database 4-15 Discover Parameters The SPMA Launcher Discover window, Figure 4-3 , allows you to conÞgure the following discovery parameters: Device Types Displays a list of all Device Types that are supported by SPMA. You can choose to di...

Using the Stand-alone Launcher 4-16 Adding Devices to the Launcher Database and added to the database. You can add multiple SNMP Community Names to this list box, and select only those you wish to use for each discovery session. IP Address Ranges The Discover tool searches for Cabletron devices on y...

Using the Stand-alone Launcher Adding Devices to the Launcher Database 4-17 Polling Rate (sec) Displays the interval at which the Stand-alone Launcher will poll the discovered devices once they are added to the Launcher database. You can change the polling interval from this Þeld; the default pollin...

Using the Stand-alone Launcher 4-18 Adding Devices to the Launcher Database To delete a community name from the list box: 1. Click on the Delete button while a community name is selected to delete a community name from the list box. Adding and Deleting IP Address Ranges The Þrst time you use the Dis...

Using the Stand-alone Launcher Adding Devices to the Launcher Database 4-19 3. Press Return or click on the Add button to add the IP address range to the list box. The ranges you set in this window will be saved in an IP Address Range database and will appear in the list box for use each time you us...

Using the Stand-alone Launcher 4-20 Adding Devices to the Launcher Database 3. In the IP Address Ranges list box, click to select the IP Address Range(s) you want to use in the discovery process. Use the selection button to determine whether the search will include all the IP address ranges or only ...

Using the Stand-alone Launcher Adding Devices to the Launcher Database 4-21 As the discovery progresses, the Progress Þelds ( Visited and Added ) will increment as appropriate. Devices are added to the launcher in the order that they are discovered, even if the devices already existing in your datab...

Using the Stand-alone Launcher 4-22 The SPMA Launcher Database The SPMA Launcher Database Once you have added your devices to the database, they will be displayed automatically each time you start the launcher, as illustrated in Figure 4-5 . Figure 4-5. Stand-alone Launcher Window, with Database Loa...

Using the Stand-alone Launcher The SPMA Launcher Database 4-23 Each time you start the Launcher, an attempt is made to determine the correct device type for all IP addresses in the database. If a device is improperly identiÞed, the Launcher will change the entry to the correct device type (and displ...

Using the Stand-alone Launcher 4-24 The SPMA Launcher Database Sorting the Devices Listed in the Database Initially, devices will appear in the list box in the order they were added, either manually or via the Discover tool. To sort them alphabetically by device type, click on Edit in the Launcher m...

Using the Stand-alone Launcher Launching Applications 4-25 Launching Applications Once you have added your devices to the database, you can use the Applications menu to launch the applications which are available for the device currently selected in the list box. To launch an application: 1. Click i...

Using the Stand-alone Launcher 4-26 Customizing Launcher Menus Just make sure youÕre in the right directory Ñ /usr/ctron/bin Ñ or that your path environment variable is set up so that all Þles can be located from any directory (/usr/ctron/bin must be included in the PATH line). SpeciÞc commands for ...

Using the Stand-alone Launcher Customizing Launcher Menus 4-27 4. Following the pattern used in the original, add an additional line for each application in the following format: Application <name> <executable path> [argument] Where: < name > is the name of your application as you ...

Using the Stand-alone Launcher 4-28 Viewing Documentation If you use an argument that is not one of the above, the Launcher will use the argument exactly as you have entered it. Viewing Documentation Beginning with release version 3.2rev1, the electronic documentation provided with SPMA has been mor...

A-1 Appendix A Cabletron DeviceMIB Agents A complete list of the MIB agent files to select when manually creating a Cabletron device glyph; creating a generic SNMP glyph Configuring a Manually-Created Glyph If you plan to use Solstice Enterprise Manager Õs SNMP Browser to access information from Cab...

Cabletron Device MIB Agents A-2 Cabletron Device MIB Agent Tables modules, by topology type; and one which lists SmartSwitch 9000 modules, also grouped by topology type. When conÞguring a glyph for a device which has a BRIM or HSIM installed, be sure to check the BRIM/HSIM table for any additional Þ...

Cabletron Device MIB Agents Cabletron Device MIB Agent Tables A-9 SmartSwitch 9000 Devices NOTE To create a glyph for any individual SmartSwitch 9000 module, select the appropriate component from the EditÑ>CreateÑ>Component menu; conÞgure the object as usual, assigning a valid community name a...

Cabletron Device MIB Agents A-12 Creating and Using the Generic SNMP Glyph Creating and Using the Generic SNMP Glyph Although third-party devices are not supported by SPECTRUM for Solstice Enterprise Manager, a generic SNMP glyph has been included to provide you with general SNMP management for any ...

Index-1 Index A accessing third-party applications 4-26agent schemas 3-5, A-1Applications, launching 4-25automatically-created glyphs 3-1 B Bourne shell 2-14Bridge views 1-1 C C shell 2-14Cabletron device glyph 3-1Cabletron glyph 3-2Chassis Community 4-8Chassis MGR 3-8, 4-10chassisusrCommunity 3-8co...