Driver Support Document

Ericsson (formerly Redback) SmartEdge Router 1200, SSR 8020, SEOS version 6.x & IPOS version 12.x & 14.x & 16.x

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SYSOID Mapping
SYSOID MODEL OS VERSION
 1.3.6.1.4.1.2352.1.13 1200 6.1.3.1
 1.3.6.1.4.1.2352.1.17 SSR 8020 12.1.109, 14.1.127, 16.1.1
 1.3.6.1.4.1.193.218.1.17 SSR 8020 16.1.1

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, ssh2, 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                       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                      
X ICMP Test   X                        
  Topology Parsing                            
X Duplex Parsing   X                        
  Enhanced VLAN Parsing  
Features
X Software Center release notes                     X    
X Software Image Synchronization release notes                     X    
  Password Management  
(Can modify: limited username, limited password, full username, full password, read-only community strings, read/write community strings)
                         
X Syslog Configuration and Change Detection   Syslog patterns X                        
X Custom Scripts and Diagnostics  
Bulk deploy available
X                        
  ACL Parsing  
  ACL Provisioning                            
  VLAN Provisioning                            
  Configlet Parsing  
  QoS Parsing  
  VRF Parsing  
  Context Management                            

General Access

Release Notes

Use Exec mode only

If the device access variable "execAccessOnly" is set to "true", the driver will not attempt to enter enable mode, but will use the command 'show configuration' from exec mode for its snapshot task. All other tasks will similarly not enter enable mode, but attempt their command from exec mode. Setting this variable will cause any tasks that require enable mode to fail.

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Software Center

Release Notes

Image synchronization

Only files on the root of the /flash and /md disks are displayed on the Image Synchronization Report.

Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) can be used only with the /flash disk. Files transferred from the /md disk are copied to a temporary directory (/flash/HP_NA_TEMP_SCP_DIR). As a result, be sure the /flash disk has enough free space to hold the file being transferred during the Update Device Software task.

Software Center

Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) can be used only with the /flash disk. Because the ‘release download’ command works only with the /md disk, a temporarily directory (/flash/HP_NA_TEMP_SCP_DIR) is created to transfer the firmware to the /md disk. As a result, the /flash disk requires enough free space to hold the file transferred during the Update Device Software task.

Bootrom and MiniKernel images cannot be changed with the Update Device Software task.

Before issuing the ‘release upgrade’ command, the driver will do a series of checks to the output of the ‘show chassis’ and ‘show redundancy’ commands. To disable the pre-update validation script, set the Device Access variable "os_upgrade_checks" to "false".

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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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