Specifications

Chapter 1 Introduction Installation and Operation Manual
1-22 System Management Considerations FCD-E1LC Ver. 1.0
Megaplex-2100, etc.), and its serial ports are connected via cables to the serial
port of the FCD-E1LC CONTROL DCE connector using the SLIP protocol.
The MBE-RAS extender can connect up to 8 FCD-E1LC devices to one
management system.
Serial Ports
MBE/RAS/A
LAN
. . . .
To CONTROL
Connectors of
Managed Equipment
Figure 1-7. Basic Management Topology Using Network Management Station Attached to LAN
The dedicated management traffic routers of the FCD-E1LC systems, and of the
other RAD equipment, are able to determine network topology in accordance with
the capabilities of the routing algorithm, without requiring the user to provide a
priori topology information on the network. Moreover, the routing algorithm also
supports automatic switching to an alternate route in case the currently selected
route fails. The dedicated router operates on the inband traffic; you can also
enable the routing of out-of-band traffic.
Combining Inband and Out-of-Band Management Capabilities
The advanced capabilities of the FCD-E1LC SNMP agents allow easy integration of
the FCD-E1LC system in wide-area managed communication systems. Its
capabilities support any practical communication network topology, as illustrated
in the example shown in
Figure 1-8 .
In
Figure 1-8, the network management station attached to the FCD-E1LC system
can manage, using inband communication over the user-selected links, all the
units (another FCD-E1LC unit, and several Megaplex-2100 units), connected to
the remote ends of the corresponding links. Thus, an entire wide-area network
can be managed by means of a network management station connected to any
FCD-E1LC unit (or to any of the other RAD equipment, which supports SNMP
management).