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Title:DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT.
Notice:Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187
Moderator:TAEC::BEROUD
Created:Mon Aug 21 1989
Last Modified:Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:6497
Total number of notes:27359

1214.0. "Interaction with other vendor products?" by NEOV00::MRIVERA (Mario Rivera, EIS Monterrey Mexico) Thu Jul 04 1991 13:07

Hi:

A customer is asking me if mcc/MSU can interact/integrate/interoperate
with network management products from other vendors and if so...

- With which ones?
- At what level and with what limitations?
- Hardware/software/communications requirements?

Particullarly, I'm interested in AT&T Accumaster, Cabletron SPECTRUM, 
HP Openview and the one by cisco. 

Also of interest are LNMS (for Timeplex LINK muxes) and 
REMOTE LANview/WINDOWS for Cabletron MMAC hubs management. 

Thanks in advance,
Mario

P.S. Crossposted in NETMGT, MCC, MSU
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1214.1only Management station to Agent supportTOOK::W_MCGRATHDTN 226-5075Mon Jul 15 1991 14:5914
    BY "interact/integrate/interoperate", what do you mean?
    
    MSU provides the private MIBs (pre-entered) for a few vendors in its
    V1.0 release (Synoptics, Proteon, cisco, Spider Systems, Novell
    LANtern).  Additionally, users can enter private MIBs manually
    through a windows-driven application.  DEC reps have entered private
    MIBs for ACC, Cabletron, Chipcom, and Wellfleet.
    
    There is no support for management station to management station
    communication.  Attempts to talk to AT&T Accumaster, Cabletron
    SPECTRUM, or HP Openview will be fruitless.
    
    -Will-
1214.2Management Interactions PlansTOOK::MATTHEWSMon Jul 15 1991 16:0922
    There are no specific plans by DECmcc to provide Manager to Manager
    interaction with any of the Management Systems that you discussed.
    There are 3 particular manager to manager interactions being worked
    on in different parts of the company for DECmcc. The IBM Interconnect
    group is working on DECmcc to NETMASTER, TBG is working on NMF style
    of inter-working (which will provide access to ACCUMASTER and any
    other NMF CME), and the PNMP program is working on making DECmcc 
    compliant as an OSI MANAGER. 
    
    Our strategy is to adhere to the emerging Manager to Manager standards
    in NMF/OSI thus we will be able to interwork with any other Manager
    that also adheres to these standards. It is unclear as to when these
    various developments will be completed and fielded. It is also unclear
    as to when other vendors will also field their standards based
    solutions. 
    
    I do not want to give the impression that we are not concerned with
    manager to manager interaction. We are. But we will only be successful
    via a Standards based approach, thus that is the strategy we are
    focusing on.
    
    wally
1214.33rd party programTOOK::NELSONWed Jul 17 1991 15:4514
Please note also that 3rd party vendors participating in the 
Strategic Vendor program are writing Access Modules to manage their 
particular entity.   Some of the vendors have elected to communicate 
with their particular Element Management System instead of going 
directly to the entity.  Some of those EMS's are integrated managers in
their own right. 

So, although Manager-to-Manager communication will be architected and 
implemented according to a standardd, there are some efforts underway 
that at least provide communication with a few other network management
systems. 


...kjkn