All Point System™ Slide-in-Modules can be SNMP managed.

The card inside the chassis slot is connected to the backplane. Through the backplane the management card communicates with each card in the chassis and sends requests for status and configuration. Each card has a set of predefined features that are known to the management card so the user can receive current status and can enable or disable all configurable features. The information about these manageable features are included in the MIB document so the management application software can access this document and ask for a particular feature to be changed accordingly. The user communicates with the management card over the Ethernet cloud or directly through the serial port.

Remote Management

Select Transition converters can be remotely managed. This enables administrators to monitor & configure remotely located stand-alone converters straight from the Network Management Station (NMS) without leaving the office.

SNMP v.1, Telnet, HTTP, TFTP are the standard protocols used by The Point System™ SNMP Agent.

Chassis cabinets can be daisy chained (max 8 can be stacked) and managed via a single IP.

The following suite of features are currently available and manageable on Transition's converters:

• Auto-Negotiation enabled/disabled
• AutoCross enabled/disabled
• Link Pass Through enabled/disabled
• Far End Fault enabled/disabled
• Bandwidth Allocation
• Remote Loopback
• Pause enabled/disabled
• 802.1P enabled/disabled
• Port mirroring enabled/disabled
• Pause enabled/disabled
• Port mirroring enabled/disabled
• Source Address Change
• AIS fiber enabled/disable
• AIS Copper enabled/disabled
• Loopback copper enabled/disabled
• Loopback fiber enabled/disabled
• Chassis reset
• Module reset
• Module - software mode/hardware mode
• Power Supply - hardware mode/software mode
• Signal detect
• Line build out
• Redundant management mode (Primary/Secondary)
• Redundant Power Supply mode (Primary/Secondary)

Group Control String

One of the most distinguished features of the Point System™ management solution is "Group Control String". This feature allows users to put similar cards in functional groups. If the user needs to enable or disable a certain feature, it does not have to be done on each card individually. To save time changes can be applied to these groups of cards at the same time by a single click.

The following information is provided by the management:

• Part Number
• Serial Number
• Description
• Firmware revision level
• Software revision level
• Power Status - Chassis
• Power Status - Converter
• Port Number
• Port Type
• Speed of operation
• Mode (Full/half duplex)
• Link up/down
• Feature On/Off Status
• Module - inserted/removed
• Operating Temperature
• Power Consumption
• RMON Statistics

Alert Notification Features

The users can receive information about possible failures happening on the network. These notifications are referred to as traps. The traps inform administrators either about the failure or when the failure was removed and the network is back to its full operational capability. Several events are considered trappable; which means when they happen a trap will be generated. The management module is capable of generating the traps to up to four user specified IPs. The following traps are generated by Transition Networks management agent:

• pSError(111) - A monitored MIB variable (e.g. Fiber Link) has changed from its 'operational' state to its 'error' state.
• pSErrorClear(112) - A monitored MIB variable has changed from its 'error' state back to its 'operational' state.
• pSDeviceInserted(113) - A new slide-in device was detected on the bus.
• pSDeviceRemoved(114) - A slide-in device that had previously been detected on the bus has not been recording its presence for a long time, and is presumed to have been physically removed.
• pSDeviceColdStart(115) - A slide-in device has indicated that it has rebooted. This is most common when the device is initially powered up, but in some cases this trap indicates a warm start.
• pSPowerLost(116) - The cabinet (e.g. chassis) into which this management module is installed has lost power and is running on capacitors. Both the cabinet and the management module must support the Last Gasp feature for this trap to be sent.
• pSCabinetInserted(117) - A new cabinet was detected.
• pSCabinetRemoved(118) - A cabinet that had previously been detected has not been heard from in a long time, and is presumed to have been physically removed.

SNMP Management Access Methods

There are several ways to access media conversion management and perform maintenance or monitoring functions.

It can be accessed via:

• Transition's Focal Point 2.0 Graphical User Interface (GUI) Application
• Web-Based application, standard web browser already installed on the network (Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera)
• Command line interface via:
  • Console Port
  • Telnet

The management capabilities of Focal Point and Web Based are almost identical.

Users who already use other management platforms such as HPOV or Cisco Works can also manage Transition Networks' converters with these applications. Focal Point 2.0 is then used as Plug-in within HPOV or Cisco Works. Other NMS application can also be used to Manage Transition's products provided the users imported the Transition's MIB (available on-line) into these applications. This process is called Compiling the MIBs.