Driver Support Document

Acme Packet Net-Net OS-E, OS Version E3.6.x

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SYSOID MODEL OS VERSION
 1.3.6.1.4.1.21798.1 OS-E E3.6.0.M4P5b

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Driver FeaturesAccess Methods
(X signifies feature support)CLISNMPTFTPCLI+TFTPSNMP+TFTPFTPCLI+FTPSNMP+FTPCLI+SFTPSCPCLI+SCPSNMP+SCPHTTP/HTTPS
X Driver Discovery release notes X X                      
X General Access release notes
(CLI protocols: telnet, ssh1, ssh2, console)
Supports SecurID 		X     X     X       X    
Configuration
X Retrieve Running Configuration   X     X     X       X    
  Retrieve Startup Configuration                            
  Retrieve Binary Configuration                            
X Device information parsing  
X Enhanced Layer2 Basic IP information parsing  
X Configuration Deployment to Running         X     X       X    
  Configuration Deployment to Startup                            
  Binary Configuration Deployment                            
Diagnostics
X Routing Table   X                        
  OSPF Neighbors                            
X Interfaces   X                        
X Modules and Inventory   X                        
  Flash Storage Space                            
X File System   X                        
X Uptime   X X                      
X ICMP Test   X                        
X Topology Parsing   X                        
X Duplex Parsing   X                        
X Enhanced VLAN Parsing  
Features
  Software Center                            
  Software Image Synchronization                            
X Password Management  
(Can modify: full username, full password, read/write community strings) 		X                        
X Syslog Configuration and Change Detection     X                        
X Custom Scripts and Diagnostics  
Bulk deploy available 		X                        
X ACL Parsing  
X ACL Provisioning   X                        
  VLAN Provisioning                            
X Configlet Parsing  
X QoS Parsing  
X VRF Parsing  
  Context Management                            

General Access

Release Notes

Alternate username for interactive SSH login

SBC devices typically require a second, interactive login to take place after the standard SSH authentication. If different credentials are needed for this second login, set the AlternateUsername and AlternatePassword device access variables to contain the needed credentials. If they are unset, the standard credentials will be used for both authentications.

Configuration Replacement

AcmePacket devices allow for both merging and replacing the existing configuration. For safety, the merge operation is the default. Configuration deployment can be changed to a 'replace' operation by setting the device access variable "configdeploy" to the value "replace".

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Driver Discovery

Release Notes

More prompt causes an unexpected disconnection

Discovery tasks for Javascript drivers handle More prompts by using timeouts, which can cause problems with the third-party SSH client code, which interprets the timeout as a disconnection. There are two options to work around the problem. Setting the RCX option [<option name="Driver/Discovery/UsePollRead">true</option>] in site_options.rcx will effect the workaround for all affected devices. Alternatively, it could be applied to a single device by setting the device access variable "PollRead" to "true".

Wakeup Ctrl-U character can cause discovery to fail

Discovery tasks for Javascript drivers use wakeup characters are sent during device connection, to ensure that the device is responding. Normally, these characters do not echo to the console, but some devices may echo them. In this case, this causes the prompt detection phase to fail, which in turn can cause More prompts to not be handled properly, and discovery may fail. If these characters are echoed from the device [check the session log to see this], then set the device access variable "skip_ctrl_u" to skip the sending of the wakeup characters. Note that setting this option on a previously working device could cause discovery tasks to fail, but it only affects CLI discovery. SNMP discovery is unaffected.

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