Driver Support Document

Nortel OPTera Metro Ethernet Service Modules, 1400/1450 version 1.2.x, 1.3.x

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SYSOID MODEL OS VERSION
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.47.1 BayStack470-48T-PWR 1.2.x, 1.3.x
 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.3.48.1 Metro1400ESM-12T2GBIC 1.2.x, 1.3.x

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Driver FeaturesAccess Methods
(X signifies feature support)CLISNMPTFTPCLI+TFTPSNMP+TFTPFTPCLI+FTPSNMP+FTPCLI+SFTPSCPCLI+SCPSNMP+SCPHTTP/HTTPS
X Driver Discovery   X X                      
X General Access release notes
(CLI protocols: telnet, console)
X                        
Configuration
X Retrieve Running Configuration release notes X                        
  Retrieve Startup Configuration                            
X Retrieve Binary Configuration         X                  
X Device information parsing  
X Enhanced Layer2 Basic IP information parsing  
  Configuration Deployment to Running release notes                          
X Configuration Deployment to Startup (with reboot)         X                  
  Binary Configuration Deployment                            
Diagnostics
  Routing Table                            
  OSPF Neighbors                            
X Interfaces   X                        
X Modules and Inventory   X                        
  Flash Storage Space                            
  File System                            
X Uptime     X                      
X ICMP Test   X                        
X Topology Parsing   X                        
  Duplex Parsing                            
  Enhanced VLAN Parsing  
Features
  Software Center                            
  Software Image Synchronization                            
X Password Management release notes
(Can modify: limited username, limited password, full username, full password, read-only community strings, read/write community strings)
X                        
  Syslog Configuration and Change Detection release notes                            
X Custom Scripts and Diagnostics  
X                        
X ACL Parsing  
  ACL Provisioning                            
  VLAN Provisioning                            
  Configlet Parsing  
  QoS Parsing  
  VRF Parsing  
  Context Management                            

Configuration Deployment to Running

Release Notes

Configuration Deployment

If an identical configuration is deployed to the Nortel OPTera device, sections of the deployed configuration will be ignored. In addition, passwords will be changed to hard-coded defaults.

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Password Management

Release Notes

Deploy Passwords - Enabling Telnet Passwords

You might need to manually run the CLI 'cli password telnet local' command if you do not currently use passwords for Telnet on the Nortel OME device. Keep in mind that although you are prompted for a username when configuring passwords, the Nortel OME device discards the username value.

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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

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Retrieve Running Configuration

Release Notes

Version 4.3 will at times reboot

Nortel BayStack 5520 devices running software version 4.3 will at times reboot after driver discovery and snapshot operations.

Workaround:

Upgrade (or downgrade) your Nortel BayStack 5520 devices to a different software version (e.g., 5.06 or 4.2). Alternatively, you can deactivate the devices or remove them from the system.

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Syslog Configuration and Change Detection

Release Notes

Real-time change detection via syslog is not supported

The device does not send syslog messages that can reliably indicated configuration changes. Therefore, real-time configuration change detection via syslog is not available.

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