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Managing Agents
The "JIDM Interaction Translation" standards specify three levels of interfaces to support interworking with different management environments:
- Generic interfaces which are management model independent
- Generic interfaces which are management model dependent
- Specific interfaces which are both information and management model dependent
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:
- Section 7.1 Solstice EM-specific Generic Interfaces
- Section 7.2 Managing OSI/CMIP Objects
- Section 7.3 Managing SNMP Objects
- Section 7.4 Management of CORBA Objects
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:
- Creating managed objects
- Deleting managed objects
- Getting managed object attributes and values
- Setting managed object values
- Carrying out actions on managed objects
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.
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FIGURE 7-1 Managing CMIP Objects From CORBA Manager Applications7.3 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.
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FIGURE 7-2 Managing SNMP Objects From CORBA Manager Applications7.4 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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