The IBM ATM devices are ALL completely ATM Forum compliant. There is
nothing proprietary in them for ATM (except for 8274, 8275, and 8277,
which are actually OEM'd Xylan boxes). The box-management mibs (for
ports, etc.) are specific to the boxes, although IBM stated direction is
to DEN for standard configs. Functions such as bridging, routing, and
that sort of thing are all RFC standard via SNMP. You can get the ATM
forum MIBS from www.atmforum.com. I think Fore is also complaint, as
are Cisco and others.
ATM Forum mibs are shipped with Nways.
Jim Kellock.
Leslie Clark wrote:
>
> Without device-specific management applications, you have the same sort of
> power
> that you have with any hub. You can load the private mib from the vendor,
> or look in the
> atm-forum mib, and hack around until you find the mib variables that tell
> you things about
> cells or whatever. I find that the biggest problem when working without an
> ATM application
> is the topology. Foreview and Nways draw the separate topology that tells
> you how
> your ATM devices are connected to each other, and lots and lots of other
> stuff. But all of that
> information probably comes from mib variables, so if you can find it, you
> can monitor it.
> Mibs for IBM atm devices are, I think, available on various web sites. Most
> of this stuff is
> pretty proprietary and not necessarily compliant to emerging standards, so
> you are probably
> better off adding an application if there is one available.
>
> Cordially,
>
> Leslie A. Clark
> IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
>
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>
> Hi everybody.
>
> What kind of things will Netview be able to tell me about an ATM
> switch
> WITHOUT the specific switch management software (Foreview on a ForeSystem
> switch for example)?
>
> It seems to me that those devices have an SNMP agent with basic
> SNMP
> information so netview should be able to put the device on the map
> (OID_TO_TYPE etc. with the correct OID).
>
> But I will need to use an specific management software to collect
> information like cells received, cells transmited and rejected cells.
>
> Can you confirm this for me?
>
> Thank you for your attention and sorry for the newbie question.
>
> Regards,
>
> Carlos Lima Dias
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