You can monitor and manage FDDI networks by using the FDDI application of LAN Network Manager. The FDDI application provides management for devices that support levels 6.2 and 7.3 of the FDDI station management (SMT) standard that is defined by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). You can manage both single- and dual-attached stations and concentrators that support SMT 6.2 or 7.3.
LAN Network Manager uses the FDDI SNMP Proxy Agent program as its proxy agent in the FDDI networks. The FDDI SNMP Proxy Agent passes requests from LAN Network Manager to the managed FDDI segment and obtains status and change information pertaining to the FDDI resources on the segment by means of status reporting frames (SRFs) from the FDDI segment. These are converted into SNMP traps and passed to LAN Network Manager.
The FDDI SNMP Proxy Agent program serves as the FDDI proxy agent for LAN Network Manager and provides monitoring and management of an FDDI segment. The FDDI proxy agent can manage devices that support levels 6.2 or 7.3 of the FDDI station management (SMT) protocol. An FDDI proxy agent is required for each FDDI segment that is managed.
To communicate with LAN Network Manager, the FDDI proxy agent program uses SNMP and forwards problem information and configuration changes to LAN Network Manager with SNMP traps. These traps are not solicited by LAN Network Manager, although you must configure the proxy agents so that they send their traps to the correct host. The FDDI proxy agent implements both the RFC 1512 MIB and the RFC 1285 MIB, along with the IBM extensions to RFC 1285 that further define FDDI segment and resource management. LAN Network Manager uses these MIB definitions to query and change parameters in FDDI stations and concentrators and to obtain information about how the FDDI ring is logically configured.