Driver Support Document

Avaya (formerly Nortel) Baystack switches, 470 series, OS versions 3.x, 55xx, 56xx series & 59xx series, OS versions 4.x-7.x, VSP 7024XLS, OS version 10.x

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SYSOID MODEL OS VERSION
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.46.1 BayStack470-48T 3.1.4.10, 3.6
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.52.1 BayStack5510-24T 5.1.3.025, 6.0.0.005, 6.2.0.201
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.53.1 Baystack5510-48T 5.1.1.017, 4.2.2.012, 4.0.2.02, 6.1.0.006
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.54.1 BayStack470-24T 3.7.1
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.59.1 BayStack5520-24T-PWR 6.0.1.003s, 6.0.3.008, 6.0.3.009s, 6.2.1.003
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.59.2 BayStack5520-48T-PWR 4.2.5.003, 5.1.1.017
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.63.1 BayStack470-24T-PWR 3.6.2.04
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.64.1 BayStack470-48T 3.7.3.13
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.65 BayStack5530-24T/TFD 5.1.1.017, 6.2.1.003
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.71.1 4548GT 5.0.1, 5.2.0.063, 5.7.0.009
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.71.2 4548GT-PWR 5.0.1, 5.2.0.063, 5.7.0.009
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.71.3 4550T 5.0.1, 5.2.0.063, 5.7.0.009
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.71.4 4550T-PWR 5.0.1, 5.2.0.063, 5.7.0.009
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.71.5 4256FX 5.0.1, 5.2.0.063, 5.7.0.009
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.71.6 4256GTX-PWR 5.0.1, 5.2.0.063, 5.7.0.009
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.71.8 4254GT 5.0.1, 5.2.0.063, 5.7.0.009
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.71.9 4526T-PWR 5.1.2.004
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.71.10 4526T 5.7.0.009
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.71.11 4524GT-PWR 5.6.1.053
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.71.13 4550T-PWR+ 5.6.0.15
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.74.1 5698TFD-PWR 6.1.4.011, 6.2.0.008
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.74.2 5698TFD 6.2.4.011
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.74.3 5650-TD-PWR 6.3.1.039, 6.6.0.007
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.74.4 5650-TD 6.3.1.039, 6.6.0.007
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.74.5 5632FD 6.2.4.011
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.78.1 4826GTS-PWR+ 5.8.0.1
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.78.2 4850GTS-PWR+ 5.6.1.053
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.78.3 4826GTS 5.6.3.024
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.78.4 4850GTS 5.6.1.053
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.79.1 VSP 7024XLS 10.1.0.001, 10.2.1.049, 10.3.0.011
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.80.2 3526T-PWR+ 5.2.2.003
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.80.3 3524GT 5.2.2.003
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.80.4 3524GT-PWR+ 5.1.1.017
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.80.5 3510GT v5.2.2.003
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.80.6 3510GT-PWR+ 5.2.0.005
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.81.2 5928GTS-PWR+ 7.2.0.213
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.81.4 5952GTS-PWR+ 7.0.0.319
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.82.4 4950GTS-PWR+ 7.3.0.241

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, ssh2, console)
Supports SecurID
X     X X                
Configuration
X Retrieve Running Configuration release notes X     X X                
  Retrieve Startup Configuration                            
X Retrieve Binary Configuration         X X       X        
X Device information parsing  
X Enhanced Layer2 Basic IP information parsing  
X Configuration Deployment to Running release notes X       X                
  Configuration Deployment to Startup                            
X Binary Configuration Deployment (with reboot)         X         X        
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                      
X ICMP Test   X                        
X Topology Parsing   X                        
X Duplex Parsing   X                        
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  
Bulk deploy available
X                        
X ACL Parsing  
  ACL Provisioning                            
X VLAN Provisioning   X                        
  Configlet Parsing  
  QoS Parsing  
  VRF Parsing  
  Context Management                            

General Access

Release Notes

Periodic telnet failures if device remains dormant

Occasionally, if the device is not accessed regularly it will fail to respond to telnet sessions. If this behavior manifests itself, we recommend creating a simple command script to "wake up" the device on a regular basis.

Create a new command script that sends an arbitrary command to the device. In the event of a snapshot failure you can run this command script a few times to "wake up" the device, or you can set up the script to run on a regular basis to limit occurances of this device failure. If you schedule it to run on a recurring basis, it should be set up to run as often as you poll devices on your network.

The command script to create for this purpose should have the following information defined:
Name: Wake Up BayStack
Description: Script to wake up BayStack device(s)
Mode: Baystack initialization
Driver: {select either the BayStack 470 driver or "All applicable drivers"}
Script: show banner

Use of \n to login after Ctrl-Y at login

While most supported device models do not require an Enter when answering the Ctrl-Y login prompt, some models have been shown to require it, particularly those running OS versions 5.8 and 10.3. Devices running those versions will receive an extra Enter after the Ctrl-Y, unless the device access variable "skip_enter" is set to "true".

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Retrieve Running Configuration

Release Notes

Device configuration differences might appear between TFTP and CLI configurations

Device seems to report its spanning-tree and QOS information differently via the CLI and TFTP.

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Configuration Deployment to Running

Release Notes

Configuration deployment using SSH

Large configuration deployments on OS version 4.x using SSH might fail due to SSH buffer overflow limitations. Telnet should be used instead of SSH.

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Software Center

Release Notes

Update Device Software task

If you are using OS versions 6.x, the device supports primary and secondary software image deployment. After a successful secondary software image deployment, the device automatically sets the software image to primary.

Update Device Software Task

If the device is running a 6.x OS image on the primary slot, and the secondary slot is empty, the Update Device Software task updates the software image on the primary slot, however and the secondary slot remains empty.
Workaround: Manually populate a software image on the secondary slot and then run the Update Device Software task. As a result, the Update Device Software task will deploy a software image on the secondary slot as well as on the primary slot.

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Driver Discovery

Release Notes

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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