Driver Support Document
| SYSOID Mapping | ||
| SYSOID | MODEL | OS VERSION |
| 1.3.6.1.4.1.1872.2.3.3.2 | Nortel Alteon Switched Firewall 5114 | 2.2.3.9 |
Nortel Alteon devices buffer configuration changes until the are saved and applied. There may be cases where these buffered changes contain errors that will not manifest until the configuration is saved. The system may therefore capture a configuration state that contains these errors. Later, when the changes are saved, the device will throw out all erroneous changes and the system will end up holding a copy of the device configuration that is not consistent with what is actually running on the device.
The mode for custom command scripts and diagnostics for all Nortel Alteon drivers is shared across a family of devices that use a similar, but not identical, operating system. This means that though many custom command scripts and diagnostics defined for the "Nortel Alteon exec" mode will be applicable to all devices supporting this mode, some will not work across all such devices. In almost all cases, the potential "damage" of running a script containing a command not supported by a given device will simply be that the script fails with an error.
You may use the "for specific driver" selection when defining a command script or diagnostic if you want to tailor it to one member of the family of devices. As an example, consider a diagnostic that runs the "/info/local" command. This diagnostic will run successfully on a Nortel Alteon WSS or SSL, but will fail on a Nortel Alteon ASF (which does not support this command). In defining such a diagnostic, you would want to choose only the WSS and SSL drivers as supported.
Custom diagnostic scripts will execute the "apply_changes" method regardless of whether or not changes are made to the current configuration from within the custom diagnostic. This is not an error. In any event, users should not create custom diagnostics that make changes to the current configuration.
The full access username and password available to manage through the Password management feature are the username and password used by the system to log into the device. This means that the username and password for the device in the system will change which username and password is managed in Password Management. The reason for this is that the device can only change the password of the user logged in.
If you deploy an image with the extension ".img" to a Nortel Alteon device, it will reload and reset its configuration and default settings. Passwords will also be reset by the device. You should perform this task manually via the console port since the device must be reconfigured by the user following reload (Refer to the WLAN Security Switch 1.0 User's Guide and Command Reference, Chapter 2, "Reinstalling the Software").
The preferred extension for images to deploy is ".pkg".