Driver Support Document

Nortel routers, BayRS (SNMP/TI)

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SYSOID Mapping
SYSOID MODEL OS VERSION
 1.3.6.1.4.1.18.3 AN 14.03, 14.20, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 15.7
 1.3.6.1.4.1.18.3 ARN 14.03, 14.20, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 15.7
 1.3.6.1.4.1.18.3 ASN 14.03, 14.20, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 15.7
 1.3.6.1.4.1.18.3 BCN 14.03, 14.20, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 15.7
 1.3.6.1.4.1.18.3 BLN 14.03, 14.20, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 15.7
 1.3.6.1.4.1.18.3 BN 14.03, 14.20, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 15.7

Driver Features Support Grid

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, console)
    X   X X   X          
Configuration
X Retrieve Running Configuration       X   X X   X          
X Retrieve Startup Configuration   X X X     X              
X Retrieve Binary Configuration       X     X              
X Device information parsing  
X Enhanced Layer2 Basic IP information parsing  
  Configuration Deployment to Running                            
  Configuration Deployment to Startup                            
  Binary Configuration Deployment                            
Diagnostics
X Routing Table   X X                      
X OSPF Neighbors   X X                      
X Interfaces   X X                      
X Modules and Inventory   X X                      
X Flash Storage Space   X X                      
X File System   X                        
X Uptime     X                      
X ICMP Test   X                        
X Topology Parsing   X                        
  Duplex Parsing                            
  Enhanced VLAN Parsing  
Features
X Software Center         X     X            
X Software Image Synchronization       X     X              
X Password Management  
(Can modify: limited password, full password, read-only community strings, read/write community strings)
X                        
X Syslog Configuration and Change Detection release notes Syslog patterns X                        
X Custom Scripts and Diagnostics  
X                        
  ACL Parsing  
  ACL Provisioning                            
  VLAN Provisioning                            
  Configlet Parsing  
  QoS Parsing  
  VRF Parsing  
  Context Management                            

General Access

Release Notes

Low memory may result in failed CLI login attempts

BayRS routers will deny CLI login attempts if there is not enough memory available to support them. On devices that are low on memory such failures can cause NAS device tasks to fail unexpectedly. If the device is low on memory, you may see error messages like:

Retrieve configuration via CLI (Warning: Timeout in executing script: Failed to get to technician interface mode.)

If messages like this occur frequently in NAS, you may need to reboot your router to clear up memory. Adding memory to the device will prevent the error from occuring frequently.

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Syslog Configuration and Change Detection

Release Notes

Some configured syslog servers may not receive messages

You can configure BayRS devices to send syslog messages to multiple hosts. However, by default, the device sends messages to only five of the configured hosts. You can use the command maximum-hosts (in bcc) to configure the device to use more or fewer syslog hosts, with an absolute maximum of ten.

You can use the show syslog log-host command (in bcc) to confirm the "operational state" of syslog messaging to the NAS server. If the operational state is down, remove any unnecessary syslog servers from the device's configuration or increase the maximum-hosts value to at least one greater than the number of currently configured syslog hosts. To enable syslog logging to the NAS server that was previously listed as down, save the configuration you modified and reload the device. Alternately you may delete the syslog host entry for the NAS server from the configuration and then use the NAS "Configure Syslog" task to add it back to the device.

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Driver Discovery

Release Notes

Discovery through CLI of Nortel ASN devices may fail due to high NAS server load

Nortel ASN devices may not be discovered through CLI when the NAS system is under heavy load, such as when there is extensive logging by the NAS system and concurrent tasks are running inventory discovery tasks with "store session log" enabled. As a result, ASN devices may not respond to CLI command queries fast enough and the discovery task may fail for some or all of these types of devices. It is recommended that you set up ASN devices for SNMP access by the NAS server, or if this is not feasible, manually assign the driver to the devices exhibiting this behavior.

Unsupported OS versions will result in discovery failure

Due to problems encountered with various OS versions on BayRS devices, discovery of the driver is limited by an explicit list of OS versions. NAS will only discover the BayRS driver for OS versions it supports.

Workaround:

Additional OS versions to support can be added to your system if necessary. Contact Opsware Tech Support for more information.

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Syslog Triggering

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