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Product communication protocols
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Product communication protocols
Table 23 details the protocols that the Management application uses for communication between
products and the Management application server.
TABLE 23 Product communication protocols
Protocol Description Management application use Communicates with device type
ICMP The Internet Control Message Protocol
(ICMP) is part of the Internet Protocol Suite,
as defined in RFC 792.
ICMP messages are typically used for
diagnostic or control purposes or generated
in response to errors in IP operations. Used during initial discovery.
For IronWare devices, used for every
subsequent polling cycle.
You can edit the IronWare polling interval on
the Options dialog box (refer to
“Configuring
polling service preferences” on page 207).
Fabric OS
IronWare
Network OS
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMP) is an internet-standard protocol for
managing devices on IP networks. SNMP is a
component of the Internet Protocol Suite as
defined by the Internet Engineering Task
Force (IETF). It consists of a set of standards
for network management, including an
application layer protocol, a database
schema, and a set of data objects. Used during discovery, performance polling,
and operation status polling.
You can edit the IronWare operating polling
interval on the Options dialog box (refer to
“Configuring polling service preferences” on
page 207).
Note that performance polling (including
data collection for dashboards) completely
relies on SNMP.
For Historical data collection, the minimum
time interval is 1 minute for IronWare and
Network OS devices and 5 minutes for Fabric
OS devices.
For real time graphs, the minimum time
interval is 10 seconds.
Fabric OS
IronWare
Network OS
NETCONF The Network Configuration Protocol
(NETCONF), is an IETF network management
protocol. NETCONF provides mechanisms to
install, manipulate, and delete the
configuration of network devices. Its
operations are realized on top of a simple
Remote Procedure Call (RPC) layer. The
NETCONF protocol uses an Extensible
Markup Language (XML) based data
encoding for the configuration data as well
as the protocol messages. The protocol
messages are exchanged on top of a secure
transport protocol.. Used to discover all the information on VDX
including Device, Ports, Zoning details and
so on.
Also used for configuring various parameters
to VDX devices. Network OS