Driver Support Document

Radware (formerly Nortel) Alteon 5224XL, 5412XL, 6420, 10000 switches, OS version 28.x, 29.x & 30.x

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SYSOID Mapping
SYSOID MODEL OS VERSION
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1872.1.13.3.2.1 5412XL (ADC-VX) 28.1.8.0
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1872.1.13.3.2.2 5412XL (vADC) 28.1.8.0, 29.0.0.0
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1872.1.13.3.5.1 5224XL (ADC-VX) 28.1.8.0, 30.0.3.0
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1872.1.13.3.5.2 5224XL (vADC) 28.1.8.0
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1872.1.13.3.6.1 10000 28.1.15.0
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1872.1.13.3.9.1 6420 29.5.1.10
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1872.1.13.3.10.1 5208 30.0.4.0
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1872.1.13.3.10.2 5208 30.0.4.0
 1.3.6.1.4.1.1872.1.13.3.12.1 6024XL 30.5.2.100

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  
(CLI protocols: telnet, ssh1, ssh2, console)
Supports SecurID
X     X     X       X    
Configuration
X Retrieve Running Configuration release notes 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                        
X OSPF Neighbors   X                        
  Interfaces                            
X Modules and Inventory   X                        
  Flash Storage Space                            
  File System                            
X Uptime   X X                      
X ICMP Test   X                        
X Topology Parsing   X                        
  Duplex Parsing                            
  Enhanced VLAN Parsing  
Features
  Software Center                            
  Software Image Synchronization                            
X Password Management  
(Can modify: full password, read-only community strings, read/write community strings)
X                        
X Syslog Configuration and Change Detection     X                        
X Custom Scripts and Diagnostics  
Bulk deploy available
X                        
  ACL Parsing  
  ACL Provisioning                            
  VLAN Provisioning                            
X Configlet Parsing  
X QoS Parsing  
  VRF Parsing  
X Context Management   X                        

Driver Discovery

Release Notes

Discovery of vADC contexts

This driver supports management of virtual device contexts, but some vADC setups will login to the device with no reference to the overall device model. In such cases, auto-discovery is not possible by CLI. In general, the main device should be managed by its IP address, and virtual contexts will be discovered automatically by the Module Status diagnostic.

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Retrieve Running Configuration

Release Notes

Private Key inclusion in the configuration

Alteon devices can host configurations that contain the device's private keys. By default, these are collected as part of the configuration. If their inclusion is not desired, set the Device Access variable "include_keys" to "false". The device may require a passphrase to be used to encrypt the keys; in this case the device's login passord will be provided to facilitate the encryption. These keys are are ignored during configuration comparison, since they are subject to change with each snapshot.

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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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