Driver Support Document

Enterasys Matrix routers DFE-Platinum, and N Standalone Series , OS version 5.x (OBSOLETE, PLEASE REDISCOVER)

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SYSOID MODEL OS VERSION
 1.3.6.1.4.1.5624.2.1.77 2G4072x52 05.42.10, 05.42.04, 05.11.25
 1.3.6.1.4.1.5624.2.1.51 MatrixE7 05.42.10, 05.42.04, 05.11.25

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Driver FeaturesAccess Methods
(X signifies feature support)CLISNMPTFTPCLI+TFTPSNMP+TFTPFTPCLI+FTPSNMP+FTPCLI+SFTPSCPCLI+SCPSNMP+SCPHTTP/HTTPS
X Driver Discovery   X X                      
X General Access release notes
(CLI protocols: telnet, ssh2, console)
X     X                  
Configuration
X Retrieve Running Configuration   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                        
  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 ICMP Test   X                        
X Topology Parsing   X                        
X Duplex Parsing   X                        
  Enhanced VLAN Parsing  
Features
X Software Center release notes       X                  
  Software Image Synchronization release notes                          
X Password Management  
(Can modify: full password, read-only community strings, read/write community strings)
X                        
X Syslog Configuration and Change Detection   Syslog patterns X                        
X Custom Scripts and Diagnostics  
X                        
X ACL Parsing  
  ACL Provisioning                            
  VLAN Provisioning                            
X Configlet Parsing  
  QoS Parsing  
  VRF Parsing  
  Context Management                            

General Access

Release Notes

Suggested value for terminal length

The device configuration supports virtually any positive integer value for terminal length. However, the suggested value should be greater than 25 as the device could potentially lock up with smaller values. The terminal length is set by default to 50, and can be modified from the 'prompt_length' variable.

The device supports two types of ACLs in two different device modes

Enterasys devices may contain policy rules configurable in the enable mode and also access lists managed from distinctive router modes. Currenty NAS does not support the ACL configuration in multiple modes, however. Due to this limitation, ACL editing and deleting has been disabled.

Configuration Deployment Requirements

The configuration is deployed line by line using the CLI session. However the Enterasys Matrix has been seen to refuse configuration options that are part of its configuration set. If this occurs, the deployment task may fail. For longer configuration lines alue for terminal length. The terminal width is set by default to 150 with the purpose of handling longer configuration lines. It can be modified from the 'screen_width' variable.

Workaround:

Utilize Edit & Deploy to minimize the amount of configuration options being uploaded to the device. If possible, only change a subset of the configuration instead of deploying the entire configuration.

Configuration Deployment with radius server

When deploying a configuration containing a radius server, the device might ask the user to provide the server secret.

Workaround:

The user can set the custom device access setting radius_secret to add the desired radius server secret. If this variable is not set, the task will fail.

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Software Center

Release Notes

Active Software Images Cannot Be Deleted

If an image is "(Active)" on the device; it cannot be deleted. An attempt to delete an active image will cause the task to fail.

Workaround:

Deploy a new image first. Once the device has reloaded and accepted the new image; delete the old image in a new task.

Setting the Boot Image will Reboot Device and Synchronize all the modules

When an new image is added to the device and the system is told to use it to boot, the device will synchronize all the modules with the new image and will copy the running configuration on one of the modules (the first one has been chosen by default). After completing all these tasks, the device will reload.

Workaround:

Only update the device image when it is acceptable for the device to reload.

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General Access

Release Notes (inherited)

SSH protocol error

SSH returns a protocol error through our SSH library. Thus, SSH cannot be used to connect to the device. More research is being done to allow this communication to occur.

Suggested value for terminal length

The device configuration supports virtually any positive integer value for terminal length. However, the suggested value should be greater than 25 as the device could potentially lock up with smaller values. The terminal length is set by default to 50, and can be modified from the 'prompt_length' variable.

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Syslog Triggering

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