HP 600 Series, Services And Applications

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Device Management Functions
Ping (Packet InterNet Groper) tests reachability to IP devices using
an ICMP echo request and reply sequence. ICMP, the Internet Control
Message Protocol, handles IP error and control messages. Ping is used
to verify and troubleshoot IP networks.
Telnet supports a remote terminal session that gives you all the
capabilities you would have from a directly connected console terminal.
A Telnet session can also be established from the router.
TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) is a file transfer protocol
available for moving the router configuration or operating system to and
from other devices on the network.
Bootp (Bootstrap Protocol) allows an HP router to be a configuration
server for other HP routers, or to be a relay agent for downloading the
configuration file from a file server. The configuration service on the
HP router, with Quick Remote, allows branch routers to automatically
connect to the network and get a minimum routing configuration from a
central HP router to boot themselves.
Time Protocol allows an HP router to be a time server for other
network devices, or a client of a time server, or both.
SNMP Agent (Simple Network Management Protocol agent) enables
the router to be managed by network management applications across the
network. HP OpenView products can access the vendor-proprietary objects
on the HP routers and can create configuration files for the router. Addition-
ally, many of the local router management operations, such as viewing the
routing and address tables, are SNMP-based. The HP routers support the
standard MIB-I variables, as defined in RFC 1156, as well as private-
enterprise MIB variables that use the following pathname prefix:
iso.org.dod.internet.private.enterprise.wellfleet.commServer.wfmib
or
1.3.6.1.4.1.18.1.1
The standard MIB-I structure is also reproduced within the private-
enterprise section (as illustrated above) at the next level under “mib”,
which refers to the Internet MIB. The MIB-I variables in the private-
enterprise section have different names but have the same identification
codes (following the private-enterprise prefix shown above) as the
router variables in the standard MIB section.
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