Re: Whitepaper on XML-based Network Management

[Joe Abley <jabley@nlri.org>]

[re-sending, now that I am actually subscribed to the list with the
correct address. Randy, Bert, Michael, sorry for the duplicate; just
trying to keep the thread intact]

On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 05:07:25PM +0100, Randy Bush wrote:
> >> SNMP is being used for configuration
> 
> of what kind of devices?

Xedia accesspoint routers are entirely configured using SNMP; the
CLI/telnet/ssh interface to that box is effectively configuration
management middleware that allows the user to perform SETs and GETs.

These are the only routers I have ever experienced that are managed
in this way. I haven't touched them for a year or so. I will note
that I never, ever used SNMP to configure them from some external
management system; I only ever used the one built into the router.
There were some vague plans to support different customer CBQ config
sets according to time-of-day, though, for which the ability to
modify the router config using SNMP sets from some external unix
box might well have been cleaner than using expect.

I was going to paste a link to the support docs on the CLI interface,
just in case anybody was interested, but now that www.xedia.com has
been subsumed into www.lucent.com/businessunit/ins.html, I find myself
lost in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.

Anyway, my point is that there's at least one box that is configurable
using SNMP.


Joe