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Chapter 7

Managing Agents

The "JIDM Interaction Translation" standards specify three levels of interfaces to support interworking with different management environments:

The management model dependent generic interfaces define two management reference models, OSI and SNMP. These sets of interfaces extend the generic JIDM interfaces to support OSI- and SNMP-specific concepts.

This chapter discusses management model dependent generic interfaces that Solstice EM implements and how they can be used for managing both SNMP and CMIP agents.

The topics described in this chapter are:

7.1 Solstice EM-specific Generic Interfaces

The SEM CORBA Gateway implements the generic interfaces that are specific to supporting the OSI management model. Hence, the SEM CORBA Gateway implements the interfaces that support the following functionality:

The CORBA Gateway converts all the requests from the client applications to CMIP/LPP (Lightweight Presentation Protocol) before sending them to SEM MIS for processing.

7.2 Managing OSI/CMIP Objects

The following figure depicts how CMIP objects are managed from CORBA manager applications.


FIGURE 7-1   Managing CMIP Objects From CORBA Manager Applications

7.3 Managing SNMP Objects

The SEM CORBA Gateway uses the SNMP MPA to manage SNMP objects. The following figure depicts how an SNMP object is managed by the CORBA application manager.


FIGURE 7-2   Managing SNMP Objects From CORBA Manager Applications

7.4 Management of CORBA Objects

The SEM CORBA Gateway implementation does not as yet provide a CORBA south-bound interface, and hence, cannot manage network elements that are pure CORBA objects.


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