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Chapter 2
Getting Started
Configuring the Chassis Setup window to run MMAC-Plus Remote Management
This chapter describes setting up the Chassis View to run remote management.
Initiating MMAC-Plus Remote Management
For this release of MMAC-Plus Remote Management, Þrmware limitations of the
MMAC-PlusÕs on-board System Management Bus components do not allow an
individual IP address to be assigned to the chassis as a whole. This affects remote
management of an MMAC-Plus chassis in two ways:
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First, as there is no IP address for the chassis as a whole, discovery from your
Cabletron management platform (e.g., Remote LANVIEW/Windows) is
incapable of
automatically
creating an icon (and associated Hub View) to model
a conÞgured chassis (individual modules are discovered and created as SNMP
devices).
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Second, when you initialize a Chassis View for MMAC-Plus management,
you must conÞgure it with a hub name, along with the IP address and type
of each module installed in the chassis. This information is stored in a
conÞguration Þle in your Cabletron management application database (e.g.,
C:/RLW/BIN/CHASSIS1.MMP).
When you initialize the MMAC-Plus Remote Management, you must either
conÞgure a new MMAC-Plus chassis, or select a previously conÞgured
MMAC-Plus chassis to monitor and manage. Once a chassis has been
conÞgured (and its *.MMP conÞguration Þle subsequently created), you will
be able to monitor and manage it via the management views described in the
following chapter.
Prior to installing a new version of your Cabletron Management Application, be sure that
your *.MMP conÞguration Þles are backed up to a directory other than the default data
directory; otherwise they will be overwritten on the new install.
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