Driver Support Document

Allied Telesis, Rapier series, 8600 series, AlliedWare OS 2.5.x-2.9.x

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SYSOID Mapping
SYSOID MODEL OS VERSION
 1.3.6.1.4.1.207.1.14.1 AT_Rapier24 2.5.1, 2.6.4
 1.3.6.1.4.1.207.1.14.20 AT_Rapier24i 2.5.1, 2.6.1, 2.7.3, 2.9.1
 1.3.6.1.4.1.207.1.14.21 AT_Rapier48i 2.9.1
 1.3.6.1.4.1.207.1.14.56 AT_8624POE 2.9.1

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, ssh1, console)
Supports SecurID
X     X                  
Configuration
X Retrieve Running Configuration   X     X                  
X Retrieve Startup Configuration   X     X                  
  Retrieve Binary Configuration                            
X Device information parsing  
X Enhanced Layer2 Basic IP information parsing  
X Configuration Deployment to Running release notes X                        
X Configuration Deployment to Startup (with reboot)         X                  
  Binary Configuration Deployment                            
Diagnostics
X Routing Table   X                        
X OSPF Neighbors   X                        
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                        
  Duplex Parsing                            
  Enhanced VLAN Parsing  
Features
X Software Center release notes       X                  
  Software Image Synchronization release notes                          
X Password Management release notes
(Can modify: full username, 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  
Bulk deploy available
X                        
X ACL Parsing  
X ACL Provisioning release notes X                        
  VLAN Provisioning                            
  Configlet Parsing  
  QoS Parsing  
  VRF Parsing  
  Context Management                            

General Access

Release Notes

Security Officer account is required

Some of the commands issued by the system are considered to be security commands. If a device is in Security mode, an account with Security Officer privileges is required to manage the device.

Device security commands

Device security commands require a password if more than securedelay seconds have passed since connection was established. When securedelay has low values, NA tasks could fail. To avoid task failure, securedelay should be set to 600. To set securedelay, enter: "set user securedelay=600".

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Driver Discovery

Release Notes

SSH discovery

SSH discovery needs a specific device access variable if the device is configured to use SSH. The following access variable must be added to the CLI Discovery task: ssh1_client_id = SSH-1.5-OpenSSH\n.

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ACL Parsing

Release Notes

Quality of Service (QoS) rules

Device classifiers can be attached to a QoS rule or a hardware filter, or both. However, the system only manages device classifiers that are attached to hardware filters. As a result, the Delete ACL task only deletes a device classifier if it is not attached to any QoS rule.

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Configuration Deployment to Running

Release Notes

Configuration deployment

Configuration deployment to startup config is supported through CLI/TFTP only. Configuration deployment to running config is supported through CLI only.

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Software Center

Release Notes

Update Device Software task

The "Insufficient space" warning message can be ignored when deploying a software image to the device. AlliedWare OS images use 50% less space once deployed on the device. The system warning message can be safely ignored. The task will fail with the appropriate warning message if space is really an issue.

Flash Compacting

After a file deletion, the device will often automatically run Flash Compacting. The Update Device Software task will wait until flash compacting is complete before proceeding to the next step.

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Password Management

Release Notes

Open SNMP Community Strings

The system manages only open SNMP community strings. Device SNMP community strings can be configured to answer queries from any IP (open communities) or from a specific IP address range (restricted communities). While the system can use any type of SNMP community string, the system can only manage (i.e., change and delete) open SNMP community strings.

SNMP community strings containing space (" ") are not supported

Although you can configure the device to use SNMP community strings containing space with quote marks (" "), the device incorrectly stores the information in the configuration. As a result, the driver is unable to parse the SNMP community strings and any attempt to use the SNMP community strings or deploy a configuration containing this type of the SNMP community string will fail.

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Driver Discovery

Release Notes (inherited)

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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Syslog Triggering

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